Intermediate Microeconomics with Microsoft Excel
Cambridge University Press, 7/30/2009
EAN 9780521899024, ISBN10: 0521899028
Hardcover, 592 pages, 25.4 x 18 x 3.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This unique text uses Microsoft Excel® workbooks to instruct students. In addition to explaining fundamental concepts in microeconomic theory, readers acquire a great deal of sophisticated Excel skills and gain the practical mathematics needed to succeed in advanced courses. In addition to the innovative pedagogical approach, the book features explicitly repeated use of a single central methodology, the economic approach. Students learn how economists think and how to think like an economist. With concrete, numerical examples and novel, engaging applications, interest for readers remains high as live graphs and data respond to manipulation by the user. Finally, clear writing and active learning are features sure to appeal to modern practitioners and their students. The website accompanying the text is found at www.depauw.edu/learn/microexcel.
Introduction
Part I. The Theory of Consumer Behavior
1. Budget constraint
2. Satisfaction
3. Optimal choice
4. Comparative statics
5. Endowment models
6. Bads
7. Search theory
8. Behavioral economics
Part II. The Theory of the Firm
9. Production function
10. Input cost minimization
11. Output profit maximization
12. Input profit maximization
13. Consistency in the theory of the firm
14. Monopoly
15. Game theory
Part III. The Market System
16. Partial equilibrium
17. General equilibrium
Conclusion.