Microeconomics

CLAUDEJEANRENAUD NILS SOGUEL Smoking is a very common habit all over the world.

Providing another key contribution to the immensely popular field of law and economics, this book, written by the doyen of the history of economic thought in the US, explores the dynamic relationship between economics, law and polity.

Cannon's Point Plantation, 1794 - 1860

In the past two decades the overlapping generations (OG) model has become a dominant framework in macroeconomic analysis.

The first book to provide an integrated treatment of financial and operating strategies to exchange rate variability.

The theory of price and quality decision-making in industries with a few firms which recognize their mutual interdependence is of increasing interest to economists and policy makers.

Enterprise and entrepreneurship is of strong interest to policy-makers because new and small firms can be a key contributor to job and wealth creation.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical tools, real-world applications, policy implications and corner solutions of microeconomics.

International relations since the end of the Cold War have been relatively uneasy, yet we should not discount the fact that the intensity of conflicts has decreased compared to the situation in both the first and second halves of the 20th century.

Post-war Japan offers a compelling case study of national apologies for past wrongdoings.

This is the companion workbook for the textbook Principles of Microeconomics.

Generic institutionalism offers a new perspective on institutional economic change within an evolutionary framework.

Based on an investigation of economic and resource allocation factors and their close relation to economic power, this book puts forward the power paradigm, a new economic research paradigm revealing the relationship among power, institutions, and resource allocation mechanisms, helping to establish a valid connection between macroeconomics and microeconomics and shedding light on real-world economic issues.

This book aims to explain to the readers the basic idea of the general equilibrium theory, which forms the core of the current mainstream economics called neoclassical school.

Free market capitalism has created a divided American society.

Uncertainty could be associated with wisdom, enterprise, and discovery.

Despite abundant literature on transaction costs, there is little to no in-depth analysis regarding what the transaction is or how it works.

Canada and the countries of Latin America are in the midst of major changes and choices in the area of labor markets and related social policy.

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston.

Ira Horowitz Depending upon one's perspective, the need to choose among alternatives can be an unwelcome but unavoidable responsibility, an exciting and challenging opportunity, a run-of-the-mill activity that one performs seem- ingly "e;without thinking very much about it,"e; or perhaps something in between.

Incorporating new empirical data and using a wide variety of methods such as econometrics, general equilibrium and case studies, this detailed volume provides a thorough investigation into the causes of the deterioration in the relative economic fortunes of less-skilled workers across various countries, with a focus on the role of globalization.

This book illustrates essential microeconomic concepts and theories through the examination of related policy formulation in Australia since the 1980s.

The motivation of this book is simple, yet fundamental: No complete understanding of the modern economy is possible without a thorough grounding in the field of innovation as an economic activity.

This textbook presents a systematic study of terrorism from the standpoint of economic analysis.

This book presents a systematic view of the cooperative sector of the economy from the standpoint of sustainable development.

Deregulation has been at the top of Japan's economic policy agenda for many years.

Annuities are financial products that guarantee the holder a fixed return so long as the holder remains alive, thereby providing insurance against lifetime uncertainty.

In the recent past, Islamic finance has made an impressive case on the banking scene by becoming an alternative to the popular conventional financial systems, spurring a lively academic debate on how the Islamic finance industry can expand its services to cover the poor.

Laboratory experiments with human subjects now provide crucial data in most fields of economics and there has been a tremendous upsurge in interest in this relatively new field of economics.

Economic and organizational literature has long separated the figure of the capitalist and the manager, but it often continues to assimilate that of the capitalist and the entrepreneur around the notion of risk-bearing.

The book is remarkable for breadth of vision and width of experience.

This book offers a practical guide to Agent Based economic modeling, adopting a "e;learning by doing"e; approach to help the reader master the fundamental tools needed to create and analyze Agent Based models.

This book will sharpen the core decision-making skills of budding managers and entrepreneurs through the concepts, logic, and principles of microeconomics used in the book with suitable examples and cases from multiple industries from across the world.

Nelson Wolff, Bexar County judge and former San Antonio mayor, has been an active participant in the city's political and business community for five decades.

Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry's historical evolution: technical, legal, economic, social and political to create a reference source for scholars, teachers, executives, professionals and technicians, as well as students of the industry.

An up-to-date analysis of the theory of the firm, including the latest research on the resource-based view.

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies.

John Levy's text presents microeconomic theory for use in analyzing and formulating public policy.

Decision-Making Management: A Tutorial and Applications provides practical guidance for researchers seeking to optimizing business-critical decisions employing Logical Decision Trees thus saving time and money.

This book analyzes the economics of the food industry at every stage between the farm gate and the kitchen counter.

This book is a compilation of papers written jointly by the staff and students of the Applied Economics Division of the Nanyang Business School.

Neoclassical economics has been criticized from various angles by orthodox schools.

This monograph is an innovative examination of the political economy of music.

This book provides insights into China's energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies.

Providing human service through markets is inherently problematic.

This book paints a portrait of social life in America by providing an accessible discussion of empirical economics research on issues such as illegal immigration, health care and climate change.