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020 _a9780071154628
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082 _a338.5201
_bPAS
100 _aB. Peter Pashigian
245 _aPrice theory and applications
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _bBoston, Mass. :
_aIrwin/McGraw-Hill,
_c ©1998.
300 _axxii, 762p.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _aPt. I. Introduction: Supply and Demand -- Ch. 1. Pricing and the Demand and Supply Model -- Pt. II. Consumer Behavior -- Ch. 2. Consumer Behavior and Market Demand -- Ch. 3. Extending the Theory of Consumer Behavior -- Ch. 4. The Cost of Time and the Theory of Consumer Behavior -- Pt. III. The Firm: Its Technology and Costs -- Ch. 5. The Production Function and Costs of the Firm -- Ch. 6. The Cost Functions of the Firm -- Pt. IV. Firm and Market Behavior -- Ch. 7. The Supply Functions of a Competitive Firm -- Ch. 8. Price Determination in a Competitive Industry -- Ch. 9. Monopoly -- Ch. 10. Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition -- Ch. 11. Monitoring the Corporation: Corporate Governance -- Pt. V. Pricing: Practices and Policies -- Ch. 12. Price Discrimination -- Ch. 13. The Free Rider Problem and Pricing -- Ch. 14. Market Behavior with Asymmetric Information -- Ch. 15. Pricing under Uncertainty -- Pt. VI. Intertemporal Equilibrium and Factor Markets -- Ch. 16. Consumer and Supplier Behavior over Time -- Ch. 17. Wage Determination in Labor Markets -- Pt. VII. Markets and Economic Efficiency -- Ch. 18. Economic Efficiency and General Equilibrium -- Ch. 19. Externalities and Public Goods -- Suggested Answers to Selected Exercises and Problem Sets --
520 _aFocusing on price theory and applications, this edition discusses: "intuitive" consumer surplus; "correct" formal derivation of consumer surplus with indifference curves; and the effect of taxes, trade limitations and market restrictions on total surplus.
650 _aMicroeconomics.
650 _a Prices.
942 _cREF
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