Descripciones mejoradas de Syndetics:

Schotter's new perspective views microeconomics as a tool for explaining the nature and functions of our social and economic institutions, integrating game theory consistently throughout the presentation.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• 1 Economics and Institutions: A Shift of Emphasis
• 2 Consumers and Their Preferences
• 3 Demand and Behavior in Markets
• Appendix A The Demand Curve
• Appendix B The Expenditure Function
• Appendix C Price-Compensating Variations
• 4 The Problem of Exchange
• Appendix A The Shrinking of the Core
• Appendix B Pareto Optima and the Contract Curve
• Appendix C Competitive Equilibrium and Pareto Optimality
• 5 The Discovery of Production and Its Technology
• Appendix A The Production Function
• 6 Cost and Choice
• Appendix A The Cost Function
• 7 Game Theory and the Tools of Strategic Business Analysis
• Appendix A Games of Incomplete Information
• Appendix B Repeated Games
• 8 The Internal Organization of the Firm
• 9 The Age of Entrepreneurship: Monopoly
• Appendix A The Monopoly Problem
• Appendix B Price Discrimination
• 10 Natural Monopoly and the Economics of Regulation
• Appendix A The Allocation of Common Costs: Cross-Subsidization
• Appendix B Franchise Monopoly
• 11 The World of Oligopoly: Preliminaries to Successful Entry
• Appendix A Nash Equilibrium in Duopoly
• Appendix B Implicit Collusion and Repeated Games
• 12 Market Entry and the Emergence of Perfect Competition
• Appendix A Incomplete Information and Entry Prevention
• 13 Perfectly Competitive Markets
• Appendix A Two Welfare Propositions
• 14 Uncertainty and the Emergence of Insurance
• 15 General Equilibrium and the Origins of the Free-Market and Interventionist Ideologies
• 16 Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: Informational Market Failures
• 17 Externalities: The Free Market-Interventionalist Battle Continues
• Appendix A Excess Production Under Externalities
• 18 Public Goods, the Consequences of Strategic Voting Behavior, and the Role of Government
• 19 Input Markets and the Origins of Class Conflict
• Answers to Selected Exercises and Problems
• Index