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.edulearnmicroexcel.
目錄:
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.