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" Principles of microeconomics "
Joshua Gans, Stephen King, Martin Byford, N. Gregory Mankiw.
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558582
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Joshua Gans
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Principles of microeconomics\ Joshua Gans, Stephen King, Martin Byford, N. Gregory Mankiw.
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6th edition
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Southbank : Cengage Learning Australia,, 2015. ©2015
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xxxi, 571 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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0170248526
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: 9780170248525
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Part 1: Introduction. 1. Ten lessons from economics -- 2. Thinking like an economist -- 3. Interdependence and the gains from trade -- Part 2: Supply and demand I: how markets work. 4. The market forces of supply and demand -- 5. Elasticity and its application -- 6. Supply, demand and government policies -- Part 3: Supply and demand II: markets and welfare. 7. Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets -- 8. Application: the costs of taxation -- 9. Application: international trade -- Part 4: The economics of the public sector. 10. Externalities -- 11. Public goods and common resources -- 12. The design of the tax system -- Part 5: Firm behaviour and the organisation of industry. 13. The costs of production -- 14. Firms in competitive markets -- 15. Monopoly -- 16. Monopolistic competition -- 17. Oligopoly and business strategy -- 18. Competition policy -- Part 6: The economics of labour markets. 19. The markets for the factors of production -- 20. Earnings, unions and discrimination -- 21. Income inequity and poverty -- Part 7: Topics for further study. 22. The theory of consumer choice -- 23. Frontiers of microeconomics.
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Annotation.",,,,,"Annotation.Annotation.Principles of Microeconomics 6th edition caters for a single semester introductory unit in Microeconomics. The latest edition of this text continues to focus on important concepts and analyses necessary for students in an introductory economics course. In keeping with the authors' philosophy of showing students the power of economic tools and the importance of economic ideas, this edition pays careful attention to regional and global policies and economic issues, such as climate change and resource taxation. Accompanied by CourseMate, comprising flashcards, graphing workshops, games, quizzes, videos. Access to Search me! referring students to the online Search me! database. Aplia is available with this text.
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Martin Byford
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N Gregory Mankiw
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Stephen King
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Microeconomics
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