Microeconomics: Equilibrium and Efficiency

by Thijs ten Raa

Overview

Microeconomics: Equilibrium and Efficiency teaches how to apply microeconomic theory in an innovative, intuitive and concise way. Using real-world, empirical examples, this book not only covers the building blocks of the subject, but helps gain a broad understanding of microeconomic theory and models.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230201125
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/26/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Thijs ten Raa has been affiliated with NYU and Erasmus University and is now Associate Professor of Economics at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He has published eight books, including the acclaimed The Economics of Benchmarking (2009), and numerous articles. In 2006 he was awarded the Wassily Leontief Centennial Medal.
Thijs ten Raa has been affiliated with NYU and Erasmus University and is now Associate Professor of Economics at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He has published eight books, including the acclaimed The Economics of Benchmarking (2009), and numerous articles. In 2006 he was awarded the Wassily Leontief Centennial Medal.

Table of Contents

PART I: ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES
Economic Building Blocks and the Importance of Elasticities
Scarcities and how they are Priced
PART II: THE DEMAND SIDE OF THE ECONOMY
Utility and Expenditures
Demand: Income and Substitution Effects
Measuring Consumer Well-being
PART III: THE SUPPLY SIDE OF THE ECONOMY
Production Analysis: Inputs, Outputs, Coefficients, and Productivity
Production Functions
Supply and Market Power
PART IV: BUILDING THE MODEL OF THE ECONOMY
Equilibrium
Efficiency Theory
PART V: PUTTING THE MODEL TO USE
Measuring Economic Performance
Market Forms and Competition Policy
Public Economics
PART VI: MARKET IMPERFECTIONS
Game Theory and the New Industrial Organization
Analyzing Uncertainty and Missing Information
Search, Transaction, and Switching Costs.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This is an ideal microeconomics textbook for students who have a solid grounding in micro at the intermediate level. It contains the first and only integrated treatment of general equilibrium and input-output analysis.' – Marcus Berliant, Washington University in St. Louis, US

'Microeconomics: Equilibrium and Efficiency is written on the premise that students should be able to take microeconomic theory to the data. Professor ten Raa has succeeded in writing a lucid text that shows the wide applicability of standard theory and its normative implications for a more efficient organization of real world economies.' – Fred Schroyen, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway

'This innovative text marries advanced neo-classical theories of general equilibrium with applied approaches to measurement of economic activity. It teaches students a valuable and solid foundation for applying economic insights to understand trade and economic policy in our global economy.' – Robert P. Gilles, Queen's University Management School, Belfast, UK

'Ten Raa's book markedly stands out among the usual micro textbooks. Coherent, well written, rigorous and sharp, with a clear focus, this book will give students an excellent sense for the nature and performance of the market economy.' – Joop Hartog, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands