Microeconomic Theory & Application - Couverture souple

Browning, & Zupan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0673524167 ISBN 13 : 9780673524164

Editeur : Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Browning Edgar K Zupan Mark A

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

What makes a Microeconomics text work?

What makes this a book that works? Outstanding quality precise technical coverage student–motivating writing style engaging applications

Browning and Zupan s Microeconomics offers the liveliest writing, the right sequence of topics, and exceptionally well developed graphs with unusually thorough explanations .all at the right level for people learning microeconomics. This edition contains over 400 review questions and problems for ample practice review material and analytical exercises.

But what really gets readers thinking and doing microeconomics are the engaging applications in the Eighth Edition! Here are some of the new ones:

• The Cross of Growing Gridlock
• Price Ceilings Can Be Deadly for Buyers
• BK Versus KFC in the UK in the Wake of BSE
• The Decline of Public Transit as a Means of Getting to Work
• Sales Tax Avoidance and Online Commerce
• Income and Substitution Effects and Home Ownership
• Network Effects and the Diffusion of Communications Technologies and Computer Hardware and Software
• School Choice is Nothing New
• The Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns, Caffeine Intake and Exam Performance
• The Management Function and Decreasing Returns to Scale: The Plan
• The Effect of 9–11–01 on U.S. Production Costs
• Learning by Doing and the Model T
• The Importance of Thinking at the Relevant Margin
• The Method of Mothballing
• Languish and Anguish at LaGuardia
• Protecting Steel Jobs Steals Jobs
• Why Sugar Import Quotas Were Job Losers with Respect to LifeSavers
• Cooperative Lawyers: An Oxymoron
• The Internet and the Price of Life Insurance
• Non–Free California Freeways
• O Give Me Some Property Rights

Biographie de l'auteur :

Edgar K. Browning is the Alfred F. Chalk Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University; his specialty is Public Economics.  He earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1971. A selected list of his publications include “ A Neglected Welfare Cost of Monopoly– and Most other Product Market Distortions,” Journal of Public Economics, 1997; The Non–Tax Wedge,” Journal of Public Economics, 1994; “The Marginal Cost of Redistribution,” Public Finance Quarterly, 1993; “On the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation,” American Economic Review, 1987; “The Trade–Off Between Equality and Efficiency,” Journal of Political Economy, 1984.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0673524167
• ISBN 13: 9780673524164
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 5