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Bowles, Samuel,

Microeconomics : competition, conflict, and coordination / Samuel Bowles & Simon D. Halliday. - xxx, 1035 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1008-1024) and index.

About the authors;
Preface;
Guide to the online resources;
Acknowledgements;
PART I: People, Economy, and Society
1: Society: coordination problems and economic institutions
2: People: preferences, beliefs, and constraints
3: Doing the best you can: constrained optimization
4: Property, power, and exchange: mutual gains and conflicts
5: Coordination failures and institutional responses
PART II: Markets for Goods and Services
6: Production: technology and specialization
7: Demand: Willingness to pay and prices
8: Supply: firms' costs, output, and profit
9: Competition, rent-seeking, and market equilibration
PART III: Markets with Incomplete Contracting
10: Information: contracts, norms, and power
11: Work, wages, and unemployment
12: Interest, credit, and wealth constraints
PART IV: Economic Systems and Policy
13: A risky and unequal world
14: Perfect competition and the invisible hand
15: Capitalism: innovation and inequality
16: Public policy and mechanism design
Glossary;
Notes;
Bibliography;
Injdex.

ISBN: 9780198843207

LCCN: 2021936241

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Macroeconomics.

Dewey Class. No.: 338.5