TY - BOOK AU - Laidler,David E.W. TI - Introduction to microeconomics SN - 0860030822 AV - HB172 .L185 1989 PY - 1989/// CY - Oxford PB - Philip Allan Publishers Ltd KW - Microeconomics N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: pages 263-265; Introduction; PART I: ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR: Basic Theory of Consumer Choice; 1. Consumer's Surplus and Marshallian Consumer Theory; PART II: CONSUMER THEORY: FURTHER TOPICS; 2. The Individual's Supply of Labour; 3. The Allocation of Consumption Over Time; 4. Intertemporal Choice with Production Opportunities and the Role of the Capital Market; 5. Choice in the Face of Risk; 6. Goods and Their Attributes; PART III: PRODUCTION AND COSTS: Production and the Firm; 7. Properties of the Production Function; 8. Cost Functions; PART IV: COMPETITION AND MONOPOLY: Perfect Competition; 9. More on the Theory of Supply in Perfect Competition; 10. Monopoly; PART V: INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION: FURTHER TOPICS; 11. Price Discrimination and Product Differentiation; 12. Oligopoly - An Introduction; 13. Oligopoly - Further Analysis; 14. Game Theory; 15. Alternative Objectives for the Firm; PART VI: FACTOR MARKETS: The Demand for Factors of Production in Competition; 16. The Demand for Factors of Production: Monopoly and Monopsony; 17. Some Aspects of the Theory of Factor Supply; 18. Production Functions, Cost Functions, and the Demand for Factors of Production; PART VII: FURTHER TOPICS IN THE ANALYSIS OF FACTOR AND PRODUCT MARKETS; The Economic Analysis of Trade Unions and Bargaining; 19. Economics of Information; PART VIII: GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM AND WELFARE: An Overview; 20. General Equilibrium in an Exchange Economy; 21. General Equilibrium with Production; 22. The Pareto Criterion and Competitive Equilibrium; 23. Taxes, Externalities and Public Goods; 24. The Pareto Criterion and Distributional Questions; PART VIV: SOME ASPECTS OF PUBLIC CHOICE ANALYSIS: Public Choice - A Brief Overview; 25. Voting and the Median Vote; 26. Interest Groups and Rent Seeking ER -