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Economics Is Everywhere / Daniel S. Hamermesh.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, NY : Worth Publishers, A Macmillan Higher Education Company, [2014]Edition: 5th editionDescription: xix, 251 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781464185397
  • 1464185395
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB 172 H214e 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Thinking about economics everywhere -- Trade-offs, supply, and demand. Trade-offs and opportunity cost -- Demand and supply curves -- Demand and supply--quantity and price in unrestricted markets -- Demand and supply--quantity and price in restricted markets -- The consumer--elasticities and incentives -- The consumer--how to choose -- Production, cost, and markets. Production and cost -- The firm in the short run--fixed and variable costs -- Firms and competitive markets in the long run -- Competitive markets--responses to shocks -- Efficiency and well being -- Monopoly and monopolistic competition -- Price discrimination -- Oligopoly (including game theory) -- Input markets, the public sector, and international markets. Discounting and present value -- Labor markets -- Human capital, discrimination, and labor-market policy -- Public goods, externalities, and property rights -- Taxes and public expenditures -- International economics.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HB 172 H214e 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000122453

Revised edition of the author's Economics is everywhere, 2012.

Includes index.

Thinking about economics everywhere -- Trade-offs, supply, and demand. Trade-offs and opportunity cost -- Demand and supply curves -- Demand and supply--quantity and price in unrestricted markets -- Demand and supply--quantity and price in restricted markets -- The consumer--elasticities and incentives -- The consumer--how to choose -- Production, cost, and markets. Production and cost -- The firm in the short run--fixed and variable costs -- Firms and competitive markets in the long run -- Competitive markets--responses to shocks -- Efficiency and well being -- Monopoly and monopolistic competition -- Price discrimination -- Oligopoly (including game theory) -- Input markets, the public sector, and international markets. Discounting and present value -- Labor markets -- Human capital, discrimination, and labor-market policy -- Public goods, externalities, and property rights -- Taxes and public expenditures -- International economics.

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