Microeconomic Theory

Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensive textbook covering all of the topics taught in the graduate-level, two-semester course in microeconomic theory required of all graduate students in economics. It combines the results of the authors' experience of teaching microeconomics at Harvard and has been fully classroom tested. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Individual Decision-Making
Introduction to Part I
1: Preference and Choice
2: Consumer Choice
3: Classical Demand Theory
4: Aggregate Demand
5: Production
6: Choice under Uncertainty
Part II: Game Theory
Introduction to Part II
7: Chapter 7: Basic Elements of Non-Cooperative Games
8: Chapter 8: Simultaneous-Move Games
9: Chapter 9: Dynamic Games
Part III: Market Equilibrium and Market Failure
Introduction to Part III
10: Chapter 10: Competitive Markets
11: Extrnalities and Public Goods
12: Market Power
13: Adverse Selection, Signalling, and Screening
14: The Principal-Agent Problem
Part IV: General Equilibrium
Introduction to Part IV
15: General Equilibrium Theory: Some Examples
16: Equilibrium and its Basic Welfare Properties
17: The Positive Theory of Equilibrium
18: Some Foundations for Competitive Equilibria
19: General Equilibrium under Uncertainty
20: Equilibrium and Time
Part V: Welfare Economics and Incentives
Introduction to Part V
21: Social Choice Theory
22: Elements of Welfare Economics and Axiomatic Bargaining
23: Incentives and Mechanism Design
Mathematical Appendix