Microeconomics: An Integrated Approach - Hardcover

Besanko, David; Braeutigam, Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047117064X ISBN 13: 9780471170648

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

Coverage of modern topics and more modern treatment of conventional topics. Examples include an integrated treatment of game theory, ologopoly, a more detailed treatment of sunk costs, and consumer surplus.
∗ Two chapters devoted to costs and cost curves, as well as a section on consumer surplus, which includes concepts of compensating and equivalent variations.

About this title

About the Author

David Besanko is the Alvin J. Huss Distingusihed Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He is currently serving as Associate Dean for Curriculum and Teaching at the Kellogg School. He received his AB in Political Science from Ohio University in 1977, his MS in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from Northwestern University in 1980, and his PhD in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from Northwestern University in 1982. Before joining the Kellogg factory in 1991, Professor Besanko was a member of the faculty of the School of Business at Indiana University from 1982 to 1991. In addition, in 1985 he held a post–doctorate position on the conomics Staff at Bell Communications Research.
Professor Besanko teaches courses in the fields of Management and Strategy, Competitive Strategy, and Managerial Economics. In 1995, the graduating class at Kellogg awarded Professor Besanko the L.G. Lavengood Professor of the Year, the highest teaching honor a faculty member at Kellogg can receive. At the Kellogg School, he has also received the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award (1998, 2000) and the Chair′s Core Teaching Award (1999, 2001).

Ronald R. Braeutigam is the Harvey Kapnick Professor of Business Institutions in the Department of Economic and the Transportation Center at Northwestern University. He is Director of the Business Institutions Program. He received a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa in 1970 and then attended Stanford University, where he received an MSc in Engineering and a PhD in  Economics in 1976. He has taught at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology, and he has also held an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Science Center Berlin).

From the Back Cover

A FULLY INTEGRATED PRESENTATION OF MATH, GRAPHS, PROBLEMS, AND APPLICATIONS!

In MICROECONOMICS: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, David Besanko and Ronald Braeutigam have teamed up to create an innovative and highly effective new text a text in which math, graphs, learning–by–doing  problems, and real–world applications all work together in an integrated effort to help you understand microeconomics.

Features:

• "Learning by Doing" problems throughout the text give you a chance to apply the theory and work through the math step–by–step
• Many extensive examples show contemporary applications of theory.
• Over 100 real–world applications make microeconomics relevant and interesting.
• Presents math and graphs in parallel, with the belief that readers must understand both to fully understand economics.
• Includes modern topics, including coverage of game theory and oligopoly, and a detailed treatment of sunk costs, and consumer surplus.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047117064X
• ISBN 13: 9780471170648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 864