TY - BOOK AU - Kreps,David M. TI - Microeconomics for managers SN - 9788130917054 (pbk.) U1 - 338.5024658 KRE 23 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Viva books KW - Microeconomics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine derived contents note: 1. Microeconomics? For Managers? 1 2. The Most Famous Picture in Economics 25 3. Marginal This and Marginal That 42 4. Demand Functions 73 5. Modeling Consumer Behavior 102 6. Channels of Distribution and the Problem of Double Marginalization 132 7. Price Discrimination (and Surplus Extraction) 153 8. Averages and Margins 184 9. Technology and Cost Minimization 204 10. Multiperiod Production and Cost 237 11. Competitive Firms and Perfect Competition 262 12. Market Efficiency 291 13. Taxes, Subsidies, Administered Prices, and Quotas 315 14. Externalities 341 15. Risk Aversion and Expected Utility 363 16. Expected Utility as a Normative Decision Aid 387 17. Risk Sharing and Spreading: Securities and Insurance Markets 406 18. Hidden Information, Signaling, and Screening 423 19. Incentives 448 20. Porter's Five Forces and Economics with Identities 477 21. Noncooperative Game Theory 492 22. Reciprocity and Collusion 530 23. Credibility and Reputation 556 24. Transaction Cost Economics and the Theory of the Firm 590 25. Economics and Organizational Behavior 616 ER -