Microeconomics

4. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4737-2539-3
Verlag: Cengage Learning EMEA

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 198 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 912 g

Now firmly established as one of the leading economics principles texts in the UK and Europe, this exciting new fourth edition of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University) and Mark P. Taylor (Washington University), has been fully updated. There are new sections covering microeconomic topics and concepts in more depth, whilst at the same time retaining the book's reputation for clarity, authority and real world relevance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Mark

Mankiw, N. Gregory

Mankiw, N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Introduction to economics
1 What is economics?
2 Thinking like an economist
Part 2: Supply and demand: How markets work
3 The market forces of supply and demand
4 Elasticity and its applications
5 Background to demand: Consumer choices
6 Background to supply: Firms in competitive markets
Part 3, Markets, efficiency and welfare
7 Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets
8 Supply, demand and government policies
Part 4 The economics of the public sector
9 The tax system
Part 5 Inefficient market allocations
10 Public goods, common resources and merit goods
11 Market failure and externalities
12 Information and behavioural economics
Part 6 Firm behaviour and market structures
13 Firms' production decisions
14 Market structures I: Monopoly
15 Market structures II: Monopolistic competition
16 Market structures III: Oligopoly
Part 7 Factor markets
17 The economics offactor markets
PAart 8 Inequality
18 Income inequality and poverty
Part 9 Trade19 Interdependence and the gains from trade

Über Autor(innen)

Mankiw, N.
N. Gregory Mankiw is Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. For 14 years he taught EC10 Principles, the most popular course at Harvard. He studied economics at Princeton University and MIT. Prof. Mankiw is a prolific writer and a regular participant in academic and policy debates. His research includes work on price adjustment, consumer behaviour, financial markets, monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth. His published articles have appeared in academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His work has also appeared in more widely accessible forums, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune. Prof. Mankiw has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Congressional Budget Office, and a member of the ETS test development committee for the advanced placement exam in economics. From 2003 to 2005, he served as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.