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Issues in Contemporary Economics

Issues in Contemporary Microeconomics and Welfare

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. George R. Feiwel

    1. University of Tennessee, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Some Perceptions and Tensions in Microeconomics: A Background

    1. Some Perceptions and Tensions in Microeconomics: A Background

      • G. R. Feiwel
      Pages 1-104

  3. Approaches to Resource Allocation Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Potentials and Limits of the Market in Resource Allocation

      • Kenneth J. Arrow
      Pages 107-124

    3. Information and Incentives in Designing Non-wasteful Resource Allocation Systems

      • Leonid Hurwicz
      Pages 125-168

    4. Efficient Trading

      • Robert Wilson
      Pages 169-208

    5. Repeated Games

      • Robert J. Aumann
      Pages 209-242

  4. Oligopoly and Duopoly Revisited

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Reconsideration of Duopoly Theory: A Co-operative Perspective

      • Mordecai Kurz
      Pages 245-280

    3. The Oligopolistic Industry Under Rivalrous Consonance with Target-Rate-of-Return Objectives

      • Robert E. Kuenne
      Pages 281-308

  5. New Developments in the Theory of Industry Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309
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    2. Industry Structure Analysis and Public Policy

      • William J. Baumol
      Pages 311-327

    3. Monopoly and Sustainable Prices as a Nash Equilibrium in Contestable Markets

      • Leonard J. Mirman, Yair Tauman, Israel Zang
      Pages 328-339

    4. Modelling the Role of History in Industrial Organization and Competition

      • David M. Kreps, A. Michael Spence
      Pages 340-378

    5. Allocation Mechanisms, Asymmetric Information and the ‘Revelation Principle’

      • Milton Harris, Robert M. Townsend
      Pages 379-394

    6. Production Functions, Transactions Costs and the New Institutionalism

      • Victor P. Goldberg
      Pages 395-402

  6. Welfare Economics and Consumption

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 403-403
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    2. Welfare Economics

      • Peter Hammond
      Pages 405-434

    3. Some Fundamental Issues in Social Welfare

      • Yew-Kwang Ng
      Pages 435-469

    4. The Welfare Economics of Foreign Aid

      • Murray C. Kemp, Shoichi Kojima
      Pages 470-483
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Tennessee, USA

    George R. Feiwel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Issues in Contemporary Economics

  • Book Subtitle: Issues in Contemporary Microeconomics and Welfare

  • Editors: George R. Feiwel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06876-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-06876-0Published: 18 June 1985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 510

  • Topics: Microeconomics

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