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Microeconomics and Behaviour
Microeconomics and Behaviour
Robert H. Frank, Cornell University
Ian C. Parker, University of Toronto

Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction
  1. Thinking Like an Economist
  2. Supply and Demand
Part Two: The Theory of Consumer Behaviour
  1. Rational Consumer Choice
  2. Individual and Market Demand
  3. Applications of Rational Choice and Demand Theories
  4. The Economics of Information and Choice under Uncertainty
  5. Explaining Tastes: The Importance of Altruism and Other Nonegoistic Behaviour
  6. Cognitive Limitations and Consumer Behaviour
Part Three: The Theory of the Firm and Market Structure
  1. Production
  2. Costs
  3. Perfect Competition
  4. Monopoly
  5. Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
Part Four: Factor Markets
  1. Labour
  2. Capital
Part Five: General Equilibrium and Welfare
  1. General Equilibrium and Market Efficiency
  2. Externalities, Property Rights, and the Coase Theorem
  3. Government
Appendices (Now In-Text):
App 3. The Utility Function Approach to the Consumer Budgeting Problem
App 4. Additional Topics in Demand Theory
App 5. Additional Applications of Rational Choice and Demand Theories
App 6. Search Theory and the Winner's Curse
App 9. Mathematical Extensions of Production Theory
App 10. Mathematical Extensions of the Theory of Costs
App 13. Additional Models of Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
App 14. Labour
App 15. A More Detailed Look at Renewable and Exhaustible Resource Allocation

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