Microeconomics

A Computational Approach: A Computational Approach
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7656-0664-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

This concise and comprehensive introduction to economics offers readers at all levels a more realistic approach to understanding the elements of resource and product markets, including the role of business decisions; technological change; product differentiation; uncertainty; and the optimal location of activities. With the book's easy-to-use software package for computations, even non-economists will become strongly motivated and can gain a proficiency in economic analysis as well as in practical and professional decision-making skills. End-of-chapter problems, computer exercises, programming examples, and numerous diagrams further enhance the book's usefulness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Gerald E.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Basic Economics and Decisions; Chapter 1 Good Economic Thinking: Its Focus and Its Limitations; Chapter 2 Free Markets: A Subtle and Decentralized System of Decision and Control Over Resource Use; Chapter 3 Consumer Decision, Product Demand, and Market Price; Chapter 4 Underlying Physical Aspects of Production Decisions; Chapter 5 Decision in the Firm: The Input Approach; Chapter 6 Decision in the Firm: The Output Approach; Chapter 7 Graphic Form for Product Supply and Resource Demand Analysis; Part II Computational Economics and Decisions; Chapter 8 The Practical Form for Decision: Linear Programming; Chapter 9 Changes in Product Price and Changes in Labor Cost; Chapter 10 Technological Change, Investment, and the Financial Industry; Chapter 11 Departure From Competition in the Product Market; Chapter 12 Departure From Competition in the Labor Market; Chapter 13 Uncertainty in Product Price: Risk Neutrality and Risk Aversion; Chapter 14 Multiple Objectives and Environmental Policy; Chapter 15 Multiple Products and Multiple Processes; Chapter 16 Multiple Locations of Production and Transportation Costs;

Über Autor(innen)

Gerald E. Thompson