Allocation, distribution, and policy

notes, problems, and solutions in microeconomics

Allocation, distribution, and policy
Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen, Op...
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Allocation, distribution, and policy

notes, problems, and solutions in microeconomics

"Microeconomics has been transformed in recent decades by the increasing use of game theory, behavioral economics, evolutionary modeling, network economics, mechanism design and attention to limited competition and asymmetric information. Bowles and Chen provide problem sets and exam questions (with carefully explained solutions) based on the new microeconomics, engaging learners with applications to income distribution, limited competition in goods and labor markets, climate change, and other public policy topics. Background notes explain the underlying concepts, their origin in the thinking of the great economists of the past, applications to macroeconomics, and relevant empirical evidence. This work provides a problem-based and policy oriented approach to teaching microeconomics, development, labor, environment, public economics and topics in business, management and public policy to upper level undergraduates, masters and doctoral students."--Publisher's website.

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Language
English
Pages
264

Book Details


Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Doing post-Walrasian microeconomics / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
2. Strategic Interactions / Weikai Chen, Samuel Bowles
3. Preferences, Beliefs and Behavior / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
4. Public Goods, Mechanism Design, and the Social Multiplier / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
5. Coordination Failures: A Taxonomy / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
6. Environmental Coordination Failures and Institutional Responses / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
7. Bargaining: Mutual Gains and Conflicts over their Distribution / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
8. Principals and Agents: Contracts, Norms and Power / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
9. Economic Classes and Incomplete Contracts / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
10. Work and Wages / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
11. Credit Markets and Wealth Constraints / Weikai Chen, Samuel Bowles
12. Risk and Inequality: Redistribution as Insurance / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
13. Inequality: Institutions, Market Structure and Policy / Weikai Chen, Samuel Bowles
14. Endogenous Preferences: The Evolution of Cooperation / Samuel Bowles, Weikai Chen
15. The Evolution of Conflict over the Distribution of Gains from Cooperation / Weikai Chen, Samuel Bowles
16. Projects: From Learning Economics to Doing Economics / Weikai Chen, Samuel Bowles.

Edition Notes

Available through Open Book Publishers.

Includes bibliography (pages 250-255) and index.

Open access resource providing free access.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.

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Cambridge
Copyright Date
2025

The Physical Object

Format
[electronic resource] /
Pagination
1 online resource (vi, 264 pages)
Number of pages
264

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL61415005M
ISBN 13
9781805116226, 9781805116233
OCLC/WorldCat
1548603127

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL45018206W

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