Authors: Robert H. Frank
ISBN-13: 9780073375946, ISBN-10: 0073375942
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: September 2009
Edition: 8th Edition
Robert H. Frank received his B.S. in mathematics from Georgia Tech in 1966, then taught math and science for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nepal. He received his M.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971, and his Ph.D. in economics in 1972, also from U.C. Berkeley. He is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1972 and where he currently holds a joint appointment in the department of economics and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. During leaves of absence from Cornell, he served as chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board from 1978 to 1980 and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1992-93. He has published on a variety of subjects, including price and wage discrimination, public utility pricing, the measurement of unemployment spell lengths, and the distributional consequences of direct foreign investment. For the past several years, his research has focused on rivalry and cooperation in economic and social behavior. His books on these themes include Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status (Oxford University Press, 1985) and Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions (W.W. Norton, 1988). He and Philip Cook are co-authors of The Winner-Take-All Society (The Free Press, 1995) , which received a Critic’s Choice Award and appeared on both the New York Times Notable Books list and Business Week Ten Best list for 1995. His most recent general interest publication is Luxury Fever (The Free Press, 1999). Professor Frank’s books have been translated into eight languages. He has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Professorship (1987 – 1990), a Kenan Enterprise Award (1993), and a Merrill Scholars Program Outstanding Educator Citation (1991).
Robert Frank’s Microeconomics and Behavior covers the essential topics of microeconomics while exploring the relationship between economics analysis and human behavior. The book’s clear narrative appeals to students, and its numerous examples help students develop economic intuition. This book introduces modern topics not often found in intermediate textbooks. Its focus throughout is to develop a student’s capacity to “think like an economist.”
Preface | ||
Ch. 1 | Thinking Like an Economist | |
Ch. 2 | Supply and Demand | |
Ch. 3 | Rational Consumer Choice | |
Ch. 4 | Individual and Market Demand | |
Ch. 5 | Applications of Rational Choice and Demand Theories | |
Ch. 6 | The Economics of Information and Choice Under Uncertainty | |
Ch. 7 | Explaining Tastes: The Importance of Altruism and Other Nonegoistic Behavior | |
Ch. 8 | Cognitive Limitations and Consumer Behavior | |
Ch. 9 | Production | |
Ch. 10 | Costs | |
Ch. 11 | Perfect Competition | |
Ch. 12 | Monopoly | |
Ch. 13 | Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition | |
Ch. 14 | Labor | |
Ch. 15 | Capital | |
Ch. 16 | General Equilibrium and Market Efficiency | |
Ch. 17 | Externalities, Property Rights, and the Coase Theorem | |
Ch. 18 | Government | |
Appendixes | ||
Ch. 3 App | The Utility Function Approach to the Consumer Budgeting Problem | |
Ch. 4 App | Additional Topics in Demand Theory | |
Ch. 5 App | Additional Applications of Rational Choice and Demand Theories | |
Ch. 6 App | Search Theory and the Winner's Curse | |
Ch. 9 App | Mathematical Extensions of Production Theory | |
Ch. 10 App | Mathematical Extensions of the Theory of Costs | |
Ch. 13 App | Additional Models of Monopolistic Competition | |
Ch. 15 App | A More Detailed Look at Exhaustible Resource Allocation | |
Index |