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Study Guide to accompany Intermediate Microeconomics - Softcover

Westhoff, Frank; Nicholson, Walter (eds)

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Synopsis

To accomplish your course goals, use this study guide to enhance your understanding of the text content and to be better prepared for quizzes and tests. This convenient manual helps you assimilate and master the information encountered in the text through the use of practice exercises and applications, comprehensive review tools, and additional helpful resources.

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About the Author

Walter Nicholson is the Ward H. Patton Emeritus Professor of Economics at Amherst College and a visiting professor at Ave Maria University, Naples, Florida. Over his teaching career, Professor Nicholson has sought to develop in students an appreciation for the value of economic models in the study of important social questions. He also has enjoyed showing students some of the stranger things that economists have sought to model. Nicholson received his PhD in economics from MIT. Most of his research is in the area of labor economics, especially policy questions related to unemployment.

Review

PART 1: INTRODUCTION. 1. Economic Models. Appendix: Mathematics Used In Microeconomics. PART 2: DEMAND. 2. Utility and Choice. 3. Individual Demand Curves. 4. Market Demand and Elasticity. PART 3: UNCERTAINTY and STRATEGY. 5. Uncertainty. 6. Game Theory and Strategy. PART 4: PRODUCTION, COSTS and SUPPLY. 7. Production. 8. Costs. 9. Profit Maximization and Supply. PART 5: PERFECT COMPETITION 10. Perfect Competition in a Single Market. 11. Applying the Competitive Model. 12. General Equilibrium and Welfare. PART 6: MARKET POWER. 13. Monopoly. 14. Imperfect Competition. PART 7: ADDITIONAL TOPICS. 15. Input Markets. Appendix: Individual Labour Supply. 16. Capital and Time. Appendix: Compound Interest. 17. Asymmetric Information. 18. Externalities and Public Goods.

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