Microeconomics category: 693 books

Strategic planning, collaboration, continual stewardship, best practices, and re-engineering can provide librarians with a toolkit of innovative strategies that meets the worst of economic times with bold, persistent experimentation. This book covers the implications for libraries of a broad...

The provision and management of social housing for those who are unable to access the housing market is essential to the maintenance of the fabric of society. The social housing industry is vast and still growing. There are very few countries in the world where some form of subsidised housing does...

This book advocates domestic free trade, because many countries do not have it. This book describes how a country first resists foreign free trade, then resists domestic free trade. This book proves that the absence of domestic free trade is more disastrous than the absence of foreign free trade.

經濟學有供模型嗎？這問題好像是多餘的，而答案一定是肯定的。例如，稅賦歸宿理論就有這樣的模型。但該理論能用在那個市場？或者用在貿易理論，可以嗎？不行，因為進口與出口的產品不一樣。用在獨佔理論，可以嗎？不行，大家都知道獨佔沒有供給，它更不須理會消費者的需求！用在房屋市場，可以嗎？不行，它只有租金梯度！用在貨幣理論，可以嗎？不行，朗格...

Richard Goodwin was a pioneer in the use of mathematical tools to understand the dynamics of capitalist economies. This book contains contributions which focus on the rigorous extension of Goodwin’s modelling of macro-dynamics and the micro-structures underlying them, and also research with a wider...

The main objective of this book is to restate the important theories and evidence from economic analysis concerning intergovernmental fiscal issues. More importantly, the second objective of the book is to identify gaps in knowledge, empirical uncertainties, and missing theoretical structures and...

"a. The tax is forward-shifted completed in Market I. b. The economic incidents of the tax identical with the legal incidence of the tax in Market II. c. The demand curve in Market III is perfectly price elastic. d. The supply curve in Market II is perfectly price elastic. e. The economic incidence...

Managing the Building Design Process explains the designer’s role in the creation of new buildings from the development of the plan through to completion. One key case study is used throughout the book so that the reader can clearly follow the process leading to the creation of a new building. This...

Classical social choice theory relies heavily on the assumption that all individuals have fixed preference orderings. This highly original book presents a new theory of social preferences that explicitly accounts for important social phenomena such as coordination, compromise, negotiation and altruism....

"1.Assume initially all firms that produce a product X in a perfectly competitive market earn normal profit. There is a drop in consumers' preference for X such that the market demand decreases. (i) What will happen to all the firms in the short run equilibrium? Explain with a suitable industry...

7 take advantage of the panel structure of their data to control for possible errors of specifica­ tion in their models. It is interesting to note that the econometric and DEA methods may be closer than some of their respective advocates seem to believe. Several of the studies show that the former...

The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "getting ahead." Social capital isn’t just about the connections in networks, but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of exchanges. This volume focuses...

This book primarily discusses what could make the economy remain stable and increase the level of coordination, both on the demand and supply side, a fascinating question for economists. In this context, it systematically analyzes the theory of consumption and production growth. Most of the existing...

Electric utilities throughout the world continue to face new challenges involving ownership, market structure, and regulation. There are three related issues at hand. First, should ownership be private or public? Second, what operations should be integrated and where is competition feasible? Third,...