Description
Book SynopsisJeffrey M. Perloff is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His economic research covers industrial organisation, marketing, labour, trade and econometrics.
His textbooks are Modern Industrial Organization (with Dennis Carlton), Microeconomics, Microeconomics: Theory and Applications with Calculus, Estimating Market Power and Strategies (with Larry Karp and Amos Golan), and Managerial Economics and Strategy (with James Brander).
He has been an editor of Industrial Relations and the Journal of Industrial Organization Education, and an associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Journal of Productivity Analysis. He has consulted with nonprofit organisations and government agencies (including the Federal Trade Commission and the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Supply and Demand
- A Consumer's Constrained Choice
- Demand
- Consumer Welfare and Policy Analysis
- Firms and Production
- Costs
- Competitive Firms and Markets
- Properties and Applications of the Competitive Model
- General Equilibrium and Economic Welfare
- Monopoly and Monopsony
- Pricing and Advertising
- Game Theory
- Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
- Factor Markets
- Uncertainty
- Property Rights, Externalities, Rivalry, and Exclusion
- Asymmetric Information
- Contracts and Moral Hazards
