TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pindyck, Robert S.
AU  - Rubinfeld, Daniel
TI  - Microeconomics
SN  - 9789332585096
U1  - 338.5 P64, 8 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Noida
PB  - Pearson
KW  - Economics
KW  - Basic Economics
KW  - Marketing
N1  - The 8th edition of Microeconomics provides a treatment of microeconomic theory that stresses the relevance and application to managerial and public policy decision making. This edition includes a number of new topics, Updated examples, and improved exposition of existing materials.• This edition includes a number of new topics, Updated examples, and improved exposition of existing materials.• This text incorporates over 100 real-world examples into the flow of the text, rather than as segregated boxed features. • Key terms are defined in margins throughout the book and in the glossary. 
• Chapter 4 includes new material on speculative demand and network externalities to include social networks.• Chapter 5 contains a new section on bubbles and informational cascades 
• Chapter 18 on Externalities and Public Goods covers the treatment of environmental economics, a very hot topic now in this course. 
• New material on speculative demand and an expanded discussion of network externalities to include social networks can be found in Chapter 4
.• A series of examples relating to the economics of health care are introduced in Chapters 3, 6, 16, and 17, including the demand for and production of health care
.• A new series of examples on taxicab markets, found in in Chapters 8, 9, and 15, illustrate the effects of government policies that restrict output.
• Added examples on energy demand and energy efficiency can be found in Chapters 4 and 7, and “contagion” in global financial markets is offered in Chapter 16.Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction: Markets and Prices
Chapter 1. Preliminaries
Chapter 2. The Basics of Supply and Demand
Part II. Producers, Consumers, and Competitive Markets
Chapter 3. Consumer Behaviour
Chapter 4. Individual and Market Demand
Chapter 5. Uncertainty and Consumer Behaviour
Chapter 6. Production
Chapter 7. The Cost of Production
Chapter 8. Profit Maximization and Competitive Supply
Chapter 9. The Analysis of Competitive Markets 
Part III. Market Structure and Competitive Strategy 
Chapter 10. Market Power: Monopoly and Monopsony 
Chapter 11. Pricing with Market Power 
Chapter 12. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly 
Chapter 13. Game Theory and Competitive Strategy 
Chapter 14. Markets for Factor Inputs 
Chapter 15. Investment, Time, and Capital Markets 
Part IV. Information, Market Failure, and the Role of Government 
Chapter 16. General Equilibrium and Economic Efficiency 
Chapter 17. Markets with Asymmetric Information 
Chapter 18. Externalities and Public Goods
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