TY - BOOK AU - Browning, Edgar K. AU - Browning, Jacquelene M. TI - Microeconomic theory and applications SN - 0673398277 AV - HB 172 .B76 1989 PY - 1989/// CY - Glenview, Illinois PB - Scott, Foresman and Co. KW - MICROECONOMICS N1 - Includes index; 1. Microeconomic and Market Analysis -- 2. The Theory of Consumer Choice -- 3. Individual and market Demand -- 4. Using Consumer Choice Theory -- 5. Exchange, Efficiency, and Prices -- 6. Production -- 7. The Cost of Production -- 8. Profit Maximization and the Competitive Firm -- 9. The Competitive Industry -- 10. Using the Competitive Model -- 11. Monopoly -- 12. Using Monopoly Theory -- 13. Monopolistic Competition and oligopoly -- 14. employment and Pricing of Inputs -- 15. Wages, Rent, Interest, and Profit -- 16. Using Input market Analysis -- 17. General Equilibrium Analysis -- 18. Welfare Economics -- 19. Public Goods and Externalities N2 - The study of how markets operate is the cornerstone of microeconomics theory, and understanding how markets operate is essential to understanding how our economic system functions. Beyond developing a coherent view of economic reality, microeconomics provides techniques that increasingly play roles in both public policy formulation and private decision making ER -