Microeconomics in Words

Microeconomics in Words demystifies microeconomic analyses by showing how they depend on simplifying assumptions and ethical judgments that could be made differently.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Accounting for Tastes


• 3: Mapping Gains from Trade


• 4: Wrong Prices From Taxes


• 5: The Visible Footprint


• 6: The Inferno of Market Failure


• 7: The Sorrowful Second Best


• 8: Hampering Threadlike Pressures


• 9: A Tale of Two Valuations


• 10: Prohibited Markets


• 11: Truth and Tariffs


• 12: Conclusions

About the author

Gregory Besharov has taught economics and finance at Duke University, Cornell University, and the University of Oxford.

Summary

Microeconomics in Words demystifies microeconomic analyses by showing how they depend on simplifying assumptions and ethical judgments that could be made differently.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Besharov, Gregory (Said Business School) Besharov
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2024
• EAN: 9780198894353
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889435-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Economic theory & philosophy, Popular economics, Microeconomics, Economic theory and philosophy