Prices and Quantities
Prices and Quantities Rakesh V. The book begins with monopoly, which requires single variable rather than multivariable calculus and allows students to focus clearly on the fundamental trade-off at…
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Prices and Quantities
Rakesh V. The book begins with monopoly, which requires single variable rather than multivariable calculus and allows students to focus clearly on the fundamental trade-off at the heart of economics: margin versus volume. Vohra offers a unique approach to studying and understanding intermediate microeconomics by reversing the conventional order of treatment, starting with topics that are mathematically simpler and progressing to the more complex.
Perfect competition is addressed toward the end of the book, and framed as a model of non-strategic behavior by firms and agents. Imperfect competition and the contrast with monopoly follows, introducing the notion of Nash equilibrium. The last chapter is devoted to externalities, with an emphasis on how one might design competitive markets to price externalities and linking the difficulties to the problem of efficient provision of public