Introducing microeconomic analysis: issues, questions, and competing views
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Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto Emond Montgomery Publications c2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Basic economic problems -- Is economics a science? Is it useful? -- Is there such a thing as a free market? -- 2. Consumers and firms -- Is Home Economicus an appropriate representation of real-world consumers? -- Is the consumer sovereign? What is the power of advertising? -- How do firms price their products? -- What do firms try to maximize, if anything? -- 3. Governments and markets -- How can markets fail? Should they be regulated? -- Is the private sector better than the public sector in providing goods and services to the public? -- Does foreign ownership of corporations matter? -- Addressing environmental problems: is there a market solution? -- 4. Incomes and inequality -- How does the market determine the distribution of incomes among economic agents? -- Is there labour market discrimination? Are employment equity policies effective? -- Would a guaranteed annual income eliminate poverty? -- Do equalization payments solve the problems of regional inequality?
Beschreibung:xv, 404 p. ill., ports. 23 cm

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