本書の概要

中級ミクロ経済学の新しいアプローチ
今までの伝統的な教科書とは一線を画したミクロ経済学の教科書。
ゲーム理論を多く用い、実験経済学的フレームワークの上に成り立つ革新的なアプローチにより
ミクロ経済の理論を解説。

目次

Section 1: INTRODUCTION.

• 1. Economics and Institutions: A Shift of Emphasis.

Section 2: PREFERENCES, UTILITIES, DEMAND, AND UNCERTAINTY.

• 2. Consumers and Their Preferences.
• 3. Utilities–Indifference Curves.
• 4. Demand and Behavior in Markets.
• 5. Some Applications of Consumer, Demand, and Welfare Analysis.
• 6. Uncertainty and the Emergence of Insurance.
• 7. Uncertainty–Applications and Criticisms.

Section 3: PRODUCTION AND COST.

• 8. The Discovery of Production and Its Technology.
• 9. Cost and Choice.
• 10. Cost Curves.

Section 4: DECISIONS AND GAMES.

• 11. Game Theory and the Tools of Strategic Business Analysis.
• 12. Decision Making Over Time.
• 13. The Internal Organization of the Firm.

Section 5: MARKETS.

• 14. Perfectly Competitive Markets: Short Run Analysis.
• 15. Competitive Markets in the Long Run.
• 16. Market Institutions and Auctions.
• 17. The Age of Entrepreneurship: Monopoly.
• 18. Natural Monopoly and the Economics of Regulation.
• 19. The World of Oligopoly: Preliminaries to Successful Entry.
• 20. Market Entry and the Emergency of Perfect Competition.

Section 6: EXCHANGE AND GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM.

• 21. The Problem of Exchange.
• 22. General Equilibrium and the Origins of the Free-Market and Interventionist Ideologies.

Section 7: BREAKDOWNS AND MARKET FAILURE.

• 23. Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: Informational Market Failures.
• 24. Externalities: The Free Market–Interventionist Battle Continues.

Section 8: INPUT MARKETS AND THE ORIGINS OF CLASS STRUGGLE.

• 25. Public Goods, the Consequences of Strategic Voting Behavior, and the Role of Government.
• 26. Input Markets and the Origins of Class Conflict.