TY - BOOK AU - Schotter,Andrew TI - Microeconomics: a modern approach SN - 0673999440 AV - HB172 .S37 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Addison Wesley KW - Microeconomics N1 - Includes index; Economics and institutions -- Consumers and their preferences -- Demand and behavior in markets -- The problem of exchange -- The discovery of production and its technology -- Cost and choice -- Game theory and the tools of strategic business analysis -- The internal organization of the firm -- The age of entrepreneurship: monopoly -- Natural monopoly and the economics of regulation -- The world of oligopoly: preliminaries to successful entry -- Market entry and the emergence of perfect competition -- Perfectly competitive markets -- Uncertainty and the emergence of insurance -- General equilibrium and the origins of the free-market and interventionist ideologies -- Moral hazard and adverse selection: information market failures -- Externalities: the free market-interventionist market failures -- Public goods, the consequences of strange voting behavior, and the role of government -- Input markets and the origins of class conflict ER -