Jack Hirshleifer

Price Theory and Applications: Frontmatter

1. The nature and scope of economics 2. Working tools 3. Utility and preference 4. Consumption and demand 5. Applications and extensions of demand theory 6. The business firm 7. Equilibrium in the product market - competitive industry 8. Monopolies, cartels and networks 9. Product quality and product variety 10. Competition among the few: oligopoly and strategic behavior 11. Dealing with uncertainty - the economics of risk and information 12. The demand for factor services 13. Resource supply and factor-market equilibrium 14. Exchange, transaction costs and money 15. The economics of time 16. Welfare economics: the market and the state 17. Government, politics and conflict.Jack Hirshleifer was Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to writing or coauthoring the earlier six editions of Price Theory and Applications, he coauthored The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information (1992, with John G. Riley) and wrote The Dark Side of the Force (2001), among other titles. Professor Hirshleifer was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.

Price Theory and Applications: EXCHANGE

1. The nature and scope of economics 2. Working tools 3. Utility and preference 4. Consumption and demand 5. Applications and extensions of demand theory 6. The business firm 7. Equilibrium in the product market - competitive industry 8. Monopolies, cartels and networks 9. Product quality and product variety 10. Competition among the few: oligopoly and strategic behavior 11. Dealing with uncertainty - the economics of risk and information 12. The demand for factor services 13. Resource supply and factor-market equilibrium 14. Exchange, transaction costs and money 15. The economics of time 16. Welfare economics: the market and the state 17. Government, politics and conflict.Jack Hirshleifer was Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to writing or coauthoring the earlier six editions of Price Theory and Applications, he coauthored The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information (1992, with John G. Riley) and wrote The Dark Side of the Force (2001), among other titles. Professor Hirshleifer was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.

Price Theory and Applications: ECONOMICS AND TIME

1. The nature and scope of economics 2. Working tools 3. Utility and preference 4. Consumption and demand 5. Applications and extensions of demand theory 6. The business firm 7. Equilibrium in the product market - competitive industry 8. Monopolies, cartels and networks 9. Product quality and product variety 10. Competition among the few: oligopoly and strategic behavior 11. Dealing with uncertainty - the economics of risk and information 12. The demand for factor services 13. Resource supply and factor-market equilibrium 14. Exchange, transaction costs and money 15. The economics of time 16. Welfare economics: the market and the state 17. Government, politics and conflict.Jack Hirshleifer was Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to writing or coauthoring the earlier six editions of Price Theory and Applications, he coauthored The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information (1992, with John G. Riley) and wrote The Dark Side of the Force (2001), among other titles. Professor Hirshleifer was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.