內容簡介
1.Economic Naturalism: Bob Frank encourages students to become "Economic Naturalists" to use economic principles to explain everyday details of ordinary existence. Throughout the text, Economic Naturalist examples help develop economic intuition and demonstrate the relevance of economics.
2.Business Examples: In order to make Microeconomics and Behavior even more relevant for business majors, the text contains examples related to business issues.
3.Focus on Problem Solving: Microeconomics and Behavior prepares students for its end of chapter problems by taking them through a sequence of carefully crafted examples and exercises within each chapter.
4.Optimal Topic Coverage: More attention is given to the development of the rational choice model as the building block for what comes later in the course. Additional coverage has been given to the concept of elasticity and its applications in demand theory, and for the average-marginal distinction in production theory. Behavioral economics is integrated thoughtfully to help students gain a deeper understanding of how cognitive limitations affect consumer behavior.
5.A Broader Conception of Self-Interest: Microeconomics and Behavior freely concedes the importance of the self-interest motive in many contexts; while at the same time highlights the role of unselfish motives in social and economic transactions.
作者介紹
作者簡介
Robert H. Frank
現職：Cornell University
目錄
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Ch 1 Thinking Like an Economist
Ch 2 Supply and Demand
PART II: THE THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
Ch 3 Rational Consumer Choice
Ch 4 Individual and Market Demand
Ch 5 Applications of Rational Choice and Demand Theories
Ch 6 The Economics of Information and Choice under Uncertainty
Ch 7 Departures from Standard Rational Choice Models(With and Without Regret)
PART III: THE THEORY OF THE FIRM AND MARKET STRUCTURE
Ch 8 Production
Ch 9 Costs
Ch10 Perfect Competition
Ch11 Monopoly
Ch12 A Game-Theoretic Approach to Strategic Behavior
Ch13 Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
PART IV: FACTOR MARKETS
Ch14 Labor
Ch15 Capital
PART V: GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM AND WELFARE
Ch16 Externalities, Property Rights, and the Coase Theorem
Ch17 General Equilibrium and Market Efficiency
Ch18 Government
