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050 _aHB 172 .B38 2022
100 _aBaumol, William J.
_eauthor
245 0 _aBasic microeconomics /
_cWilliam J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder and John L. Solow
250 _aPhilippine Edition.
260 _aSingapore :
_bCengage Learning Asia Pte Ltd,
_cc2022
300 _aviii, 366 pages ;
_c26 cm.
365 _bPHP477
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aChapter 1. What is Economics? -- Chapter 2. The Fundamental Economic Problem: Scarcity and choice -- Chapter 3. Supply and Demand An Initial Look -- Chapter 4. Consumer Choice: Individual and Market Demand -- Chapter 5. Demand and Elasticity -- Chapter 6. Output, Price and Profit: The Importance of Marginal Analysis -- Chapter 7. The Firm and the industry under perfect competition -- Chapter 8. The case for free markets: the price system -- Chapter 9. Monopoly -- Chapter 10. Between competition and monopoly -- Chapter 11. Taxation and Resource Allocation -- Chapter 12. Pricing the factors of Production -- Chapter 13. Labor and Enterpreneurship: The Human Inputs -- Chapter 14. International Trade and Comparative Advantage.
520 _aEconomics is a broad-ranging discipline, both in the questions it asks and the methods it uses to seek answer. Many of the world's most pressing problems are economic in nature. The first part of this chapter gives you some idea of the sorts of issues that economic analysis helps to clarify and the kinds of solutions that economic principles suggest. The second part briefly introduces some tools that economist use. You are likely to find some of these tools useful in your career, personal life, and role as an informed citizen, long after this course is over.
650 _aMICROECONOMICS
700 _aBlinder, Alan S.
_eco-author
700 _aSolow, John L.
_eco-author
942 _2lcc
_cBK
999 _c21980
_d21980