Microeconomics: Principles and Applications
Marc Lieberman
Language: English
Pages: 552
ISBN: 1111822565
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Discover how today's microeconomic policy issues, decisions, and applications impact you every day with the practical, accessible presentation in MICROECONOMICS. Written by acclaimed economists Hall and Lieberman, this straightforward contemporary text offers a presentation as current as the latest headlines. Fresh new cutting-edge examples throughout this edition as well as updated mini-cases clearly illustrate core microeconomic theory and applications in action. This edition's streamlined chapters focus on today's most important microeconomic theories and events. The latest thinking from leading economists helps equip readers with a solid foundation in microeconomics necessary for success, no matter what the career.
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Decisions is rather obvious, since they all involve spending. But in other cases, the economic nature of your decisions may be less obvious. Did you get up early today in order to get things done, or did you sleep in? At this very moment, what have you decided not to do in order to make time to read this chapter? These are economic choices, too, because they require you to allocate a scarce resource—your time—among different alternatives. To understand the economic choices that individuals make,.
Ice cream cones. Look first at panel (a). On the horizontal axis, we’ll measure the number of ice cream cones Lisa consumes each week. On the vertical axis, we’ll measure the utility she derives from consuming each of them. If Lisa values ice cream cones, her utility will increase as she acquires more of them, as it does in the figure. We’ll suppose that when she has one cone, she enjoys total utility of 30 “utils,” and when she has two cones, her total utility grows to 50 utils, and so on.
Additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. Chapter 6: Consumer Choice 177 new budget constraint that reflects this inferiority. What will happen to Cameron’s potato consumption? What will happen to his steak consumption? 14. [Uses the Indifference Curve Approach] a. Draw a budget line for Rafaella, who has a weekly income of $30. Assume that she buys chicken and eggs, and that chicken costs $5 per pound while eggs cost $1 each. Add an indifference curve.
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