Microeconomics

Microeconomics by Anthony Patrick O'Brien. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780136021971.

Key Benefit: Hubbard & OBrien are still keeping it real in the third edition with new and updated coverage that reflects the current state of the economy and the recent financial meltdown. Key Topics: MICROECONOMICS: Economics: Foundations and Models; Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System; Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Demand and Supply; Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes; Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods; Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply; Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance; Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade; Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics; Technology, Production, and Costs; Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets; Monopolistic Competition: The Competitive Model in a More Realistic Setting; Oligopoly: Firms in Less Competit