TY - BOOK AU - Hirshleifer,Jack TI - Price theory and applications SN - 0136997104 U1 - 338.5 22 PY - 1980/// CY - Englewood Cliffs, New .Jersey. PB - Prentice-Hall KW - Microeconomics N1 - CONTENT PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. The nature and scope of economics 2. Working tools PART TWO: PREFERENCE, CONSUMPTION, AN DDEMAND 3. Utility and preference 4. Consumption and demand 5. Measures and determinants of demand 6. Applications and extensions of demand theory PART THREE: EQUILLIBRIUM AND EXCHANGE 7. Equilibrium, exchange and the gains form trade 8. Costs of exchange and the role of money PART FOUR: THE FIRM AND THE INDUSTRY 9. The business firm 10. Competitive supply, and equilibrium in the product market 11. Monopoly and the question of economic efficiency 12. Product as a variable 13. Oligopoly PART FIVE: FACTOR MARKETS, DISTRIBUTION, AND INTERTEMPORAL ANALYSIS 14. The demand for factors of production 15. Factor supply, factor-market equilibrium, and income distribution 16. Intertemporal choice: saving, investment, and interest PART SIX: POLITICAL ECONOMY 17. Welfare economics: The theory of economic policy ; Includes bibliographical references and index ER -