Autorentext

Jeffrey M. Perloff is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His economic research covers industrial organisation, marketing, labour, trade and econometrics.

His textbooks are Modern Industrial Organization (with Dennis Carlton), Microeconomics, Microeconomics: Theory and Applications with Calculus, Estimating Market Power and Strategies (with Larry Karp and Amos Golan), and Managerial Economics and Strategy (with James Brander).

He has been an editor of Industrial Relations and the Journal of Industrial Organization Education, and an associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Journal of Productivity Analysis. He has consulted with nonprofit organisations and government agencies (including the Federal Trade Commission and the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and Agriculture) on topics ranging from a case of alleged Japanese television dumping to the evaluation of social programs.

He has also conducted research in psychology.

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Inhalt

1. Introduction
2. Supply and Demand
3. A Consumer's Constrained Choice
4. Demand
5. Consumer Welfare and Policy Analysis
6. Firms and Production
7. Costs
8. Competitive Firms and Markets
9. Properties and Applications of the Competitive Model
10. General Equilibrium and Economic Welfare
11. Monopoly and Monopsony
12. Pricing and Advertising
13. Game Theory
14. Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
15. Factor Markets
16. Uncertainty
17. Property Rights, Externalities, Rivalry, and Exclusion
18. Asymmetric Information
19. Contracts and Moral Hazards