Microeconomics, Global Edition
Autor Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, John A. Listen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iun 2021
Analiza economică modernă nu mai poate fi predată doar prin grafice abstracte, iar experiența vastă a lui Daron Acemoglu în cercetarea dinamicii puterii și a instituțiilor economice la cel mai înalt nivel academic transformă acest manual într-un instrument de precizie. Suntem de părere că Microeconomics, Global Edition reușește să scoată disciplina din sfera teoretică pură și să o ancoreze în realitatea factuală prin cele trei teme recurente: optimizarea, echilibrul și, mai ales, empirismul. Pe linia practică a volumului Essentials of Microeconomics de Bonnie Nguyen, dar cu un focus mult mai accentuat pe utilizarea datelor concrete pentru a valida modelele teoretice, această lucrare publicată de Pearson forțează cititorul să gândească precum un economist aplicat. Structura cărții este construită progresiv, pornind de la fundamentele cererii și ofertei în prima parte, trecând prin structurile de piață și culminând cu extinderea setului de instrumente microeconomice în ultima secțiune. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit modul în care autorii Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson și John A. List au organizat capitolele: fiecare începe cu o întrebare practică, iar răspunsul este construit riguros prin secțiunea 'Evidence-Based Economics'. Această abordare asigură o înțelegere profundă a modului în care stimulentele guvernează deciziile umane, de la monopoluri și oligopoluri până la externalități și politici publice. Este o resursă care nu doar prezintă fapte, ci antrenează mintea pentru o analiză critică a lumii înconjurătoare.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 129241488X
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 216 x 276 x 28 mm
Greutate: 1.26 kg
Ediția:3. Auflage
Editura: Pearson
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte studenților și profesioniștilor care doresc să stăpânească microeconomia prin dovezi, nu doar prin formule. Veți învăța cum să aplicați principiile optimizării în deciziile zilnice și cum să interpretați datele din piețele reale. Câștigul principal este dobândirea unei metode riguroase de analiză a stimulentelor, esențială în afaceri și politici publice.
Despre autor
Daron Acemoglu este un economist de renume mondial, profesor la MIT, cunoscut pentru cercetările sale asupra rolului instituțiilor în dezvoltarea economică. Alături de David Laibson (Harvard) și John A. List (University of Chicago), el formează o echipă de autori care combină rigoarea academică cu expertiza în economia comportamentală și experimentală. Contribuțiile lor au influențat decisiv modul în care economia este predată astăzi, punând accent pe testarea ipotezelor prin date empirice.
Cuprins
PARTII: FOUNDATIONS OF MICROECONOMICS 5. Consumers and Incentives 6. Sellers and Incentives 7. Perfect Competition and the Invisible Hand 8. Trade 9. Externalities and Public Goods 10. The Government in the Economy: Taxation and Regulation 11. Markets for Factors of Production
PARTIII: MARKET STRUCTURE 12. Monopoly 13. Game Theory and Strategic Play 14. Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
PARTIV: EXTENDING THE MICROECONOMIC TOOLBOX 15. Trade-offs Involving Time and Risk 16. The Economics of Information 17. Auctions and Bargaining 18. Social Economics
Notă biografică
He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the EuropeanEconomic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He has receivednumerous awards and fellowships, including the inaugural T. W. Schultz Prizefrom the University of Chicago in 2004, the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award foroutstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004, the Distinguished ScienceAward from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, and the John von NeumannAward, Rajk College, Budapest, in 2007.
He was also the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005,awarded every two years to the best economist in the US under the age of 40 bythe American Economic Association, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize, awardedevery two years for work of lasting significance in economics. He holdshonorary doctorates from the University of Utrecht and Bosporus University.
His research interests include political economy, economicdevelopment and growth, human capital theory, growth theory, innovation, searchtheory, network economics, and learning.
His books include Economic Origins of Dictatorship andDemocracy (jointly with James A. Robinson), which was awarded theWoodrow Wilson and the William Riker prizes, Introduction to ModernEconomic Growth, and Why Nations Fail: The Origins ofPower,Prosperity, and Poverty (jointly with James A. Robinson), which hasbecome a New York Times bestseller.
David Laibson is the Chair of the HarvardEconomics Department and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics atHarvard University. He holds degrees from Harvard University (AB in economics),the London School of Economics (MSc in econometrics and mathematicaleconomics), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in economics).
He is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research,where he is Research Associate in the Asset Pricing, Economic Fluctuations, andAging Working Groups. His research focuses on the topics of behavioraleconomics, intertemporal choice, macroeconomics, and household finance, and heleads Harvard University's Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative.
He serves on several editorial boards, as well as the PensionResearch Council (Wharton), Harvard's Pension Investment Committee, and theBoard of the Russell Sage Foundation. He has previously served on the boards ofthe Health and Retirement Study (National Institutes of Health) and the Academic Research Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
He is a recipient of a Marshall Scholarship and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also arecipient of the T. W. Schultz Prize from the University of Chicago and theTIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on LifelongFinancial Security. In recognition of his teaching excellence, he has beenawarded Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Prize and a Harvard College Professorship.
John A. List is the Kenneth C. GriffinDistinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, andChairman of the Department of Economics. He received his BS in economics fromthe University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and his PhD in economics from theUniversity of Wyoming. Before joining the University of Chicago in 2005, he wasa professor at the University of Central Florida, University of Arizona, andUniversity of Maryland. He also served in the White House on the Council ofEconomic Advisers from 2002-2003, and is a Research Associate at the NBER.
List was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts andSciences in 2011, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2015. He alsoreceived the Arrow Prize for Senior Economists in 2008, the Kenneth GalbraithAward in 2010, the Yrjo Jahnsson Lecture Prize in 2012, and the Klein LecturePrize in 2016. He received an honorary doctorate from Tilburg University in2014 and from the University of Ottawa in 2017. In addition, List was named a Top50 Innovator in the Non-Profit Times for 2015 and 2016 for his work oncharitable giving.
His research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with aparticular emphasis on using field experiments to address both positive andnormative issues. For decades his field experimental research has focused onissues related to the inner workings of markets, the effects of variousincentive schemes on market equilibria and allocations, and how behavioraleconomics can augment the standard economic model. This includes research intowhy inner city schools fail, why people discriminate, why people give tocharity, why firms fail, why women make less money than men in labor markets,and why people generally do what they do.
His research includes over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles andseveral published books, including the 2013 international best-seller, TheWhy Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life (withUri Gneezy).