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
