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Microeconomics for Managers, 2nd Edition
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Publication Date: 29 January 2019
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ISBN: 9780691182698
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Pages: 520
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Imprint: Princeton University Press

A thoroughly revised new edition of a leading textbook that equips MBA students with the powerful tools of economics
This is a thoroughly revised and substantially streamlined new edition of a leading textbook that shows MBA students how understanding economics can help them make smarter and better-informed real-world management decisions. David Kreps, one of the world’s most influential economists, has developed and refined Microeconomics for Managers over decades of teaching at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Stressing game theory and strategic thinking and driven by in-depth, integrated case studies, the book shows future managers how economics can provide practical answers to critical business problems.
- Focuses on case studies and real companies, such as Amazon, Microsoft, General Motors, United Airlines, and Xerox
- Covers essential topics for future managers—including price discrimination, Porter’s five forces, risk sharing and spreading, signaling and screening, credibility and reputation, and economics and organizational behavior
- Features an online supplement (available at micro4managers.stanford.edu) for students that provides solutions to the problems in the book, longer caselike exercises, review problems, a calculus review, and more
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Part I: The Economics of Relationships
- 1. The Economics of Relationships (and Porter’s Five Forces)
- 2. Noncooperative Game Theory
- 3. Reciprocity and Collusion
- 4. Credibility and Reputation
- 5. Transaction-Cost Economics
- Part II: Pricing with Market Power
- 6. Marginal Cost Equals Marginal Revenue
- 7. Mark-Up Pricing and Elasticity
- 8. Price Discrimination
- 9. Channels of Distribution and Double Marginalization
- Part III: Bang for the Buck: Optimization Under Constraint
- 10. The Utility-Maximizing Consumer
- 11. Technology and Cost Minimization
- 12. Multiperiod Production and Cost
- Part IV: Competitive Markets
- 13. The Most Famous Picture in Economics
- 14. Competitive Firms in Competitive Markets
- 15. The Invisible Hand
- 16. Taxes, Subsidies, Administered Prices, and Quotas
- 17. Externalities
- Part V: Uncertainty and Information
- 18. The Expected-Utility Model
- 19. Risk Sharing and Spreading: Securities and Insurance Markets
- 20. Hidden Information: Adverse Selection, Signaling, and Screening
- 21. Hidden Action: Moral Hazard and Incentives
- Index