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Introduction to Economic Analysis by R. Preston McAfee and Tracy R. Lewis
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- Table of Contents
- About the Authors
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Listen to a podcast here of Preston discussing his textbook and the Microeconomics course to gain perspective on this text.
This book presents standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that, in the authors' view, ought to be standard but is not. Introductory economics material is integrated. Standard mathematical tools, including calculus, are used throughout. The book easily serves as an intermediate microeconomics text, and can be used for a relatively sophisticated undergraduate who has not taken a basic university course in economics.
The focus of this book is on the conceptual tools and not on fluff. As such, it reflects the approach actually adopted by the majority of economists for understanding economic activity. There are lots of models and equations, and no pictures of economists ;-)
Economic analysis is used in many situations. When British Petroleum sets the price for Alaskan crude oil, it uses an estimated demand model, both for gasoline consumers and also for the refineries to which BP sells. Economic analysis was used by experts in the antitrust suit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice both to understand Microsoft’s incentive to foreclose (eliminate from the market) rival Netscape and consumer behavior in the face of alleged foreclosure. Stock market analysts use economic models to forecast the profits of companies to predict the price of their stocks. When the government forecasts the budget deficit or considers a change in environmental regulations, it uses economic models. This book presents the building blocks of the models in common use by an army of economists thousands of times per day.
This book, plus econometrics, provides most of the economic analysis tools to take upper division economics courses of any type.
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1: What Is Economics?
- Section 1: Normative and Positive Theories
- Section 2: Opportunity Cost
- Section 3: Economic Reasoning and Analysis
- Chapter 2: Supply and Demand
- Section 1: Demand and Consumer Surplus
- Section 2: Supply and Profit
- Section 3: Market Demand and Supply
- Section 4: Equilibrium
- Section 5: Changes in Demand and Supply
- Chapter 3: Quantification
- Section 1: Elasticity
- Section 2: Supply and Demand Changes
- Chapter 4: The U.S. Economy
- Section 1: Basic Demographics
- Section 2: Education
- Section 3: Households and Consumption
- Section 4: Production
- Section 5: Government
- Section 6: Trade
- Section 7: Fluctuations
- Chapter 5: Government Interventions
- Section 1: Effects of Taxes
- Section 2: Incidence of Taxes
- Section 3: Excess Burden of Taxation
- Section 4: Price Floors and Ceilings
- Section 5: The Politics of Price Controls
- Section 6: Price Supports
- Section 7: Quantity Restrictions and Quotas
- Chapter 6: Trade
- Section 1: Production Possibilities Frontier
- Section 2: Comparative and Absolute Advantage
- Section 3: Factors of Production
- Section 4: International Trade
- Chapter 7: Externalities
- Section 1: External Effects
- Section 2: Pigouvian Taxes
- Section 3: Quotas
- Section 4: Tradable Permits and Auctions
- Section 5: Coasian Bargaining
- Section 6: Fishing and Extinction
- Chapter 8: Public Goods
- Section 1: Free-Riders
- Section 2: Provision with Taxation
- Section 3: Local Public Goods
- Chapter 9: Producer Theory: Costs
- Section 1: Types of Firms
- Section 2: Production Functions
- Section 3: Profit Maximization
- Section 4: The Shadow Value
- Section 5: Input Demand
- Section 6: Myriad Costs
- Chapter 10: Producer Theory: Dynamics
- Section 1: Reactions of Competitive Firms
- Section 2: Economies of Scale and Scope
- Section 3: Dynamics with Constant Costs
- Section 4: General Long-Run Dynamics
- Chapter 11: Investment
- Section 1: Present value
- Section 2: Investment
- Section 3: Investment Under Uncertainty
- Section 4: Resource Extraction
- Section 5: A Time to Harvest
- Section 6: Collectibles
- Section 7: Summer Wheat
- Chapter 12: Consumer Theory
- Section 1: Utility Maximization
- Section 2: Budget or Feasible Set
- Section 3: Isoquants
- Section 4: Examples
- Section 5: Substitution Effects
- Section 6: Income Effects
- Section 7: Mathematical Cleanup
- Chapter 13: Applied Consumer Theory
- Section 1: Labor Supply
- Section 2: Urban Real Estate Prices
- Section 3: Dynamic Choice
- Section 4: Risk Aversion
- Section 5: Search
- Chapter 14: General Equilibrium
- Section 1: Edgeworth Box
- Section 2: Equilibrium With Price System
- Section 3: General Equilibrium
- Chapter 15: Monopoly
- Section 1: Sources of Monopoly
- Section 2: Basic Analysis
- Section 3: Effect of Taxes
- Section 4: Price Discrimination
- Section 5: Welfare Effects
- Section 6: Natural Monopoly
- Section 7: Peak-Load Pricing
- Chapter 16: Games Strategic Behavior
- Section 1: Matrix Games
- Section 2: Nash Equilibrium
- Section 3: Mixed Strategies
- Section 4: Examples
- Section 5: Subgame Perfection
- Section 6: Supergames
- Chapter 17: Imperfect Competition
- Section 1: Cournot Oligopoly
- Section 2: Cournot Industry Performance
- Section 3: Hotelling Differentiation
- Section 4: The Circle Model
- Chapter 18: Information
- Section 1: Market for Lemons
- Section 2: Myerson-Satterthwaite Theorem
- Section 3: Signaling
- Section 4: Search and Price Dispersion
- Chapter 19: Agency Theory
- Section 1: Principals and Agents
- Section 2: Cost of Providing Incentives
- Section 3: Multi-tasking
- Section 4: Multi-tasking without Homogeneity
- Chapter 20: Auctions
- Section 1: English Auction
- Section 2: Sealed-bid Auction
- Section 3: Dutch Auction
- Section 4: Vickrey Auction
- Section 5: The Winner’s Curse and Linkage
- Section 6: Auction Design
- Chapter 21: Antitrust
- Section 1: Sherman Act
- Section 2: Clayton Act
- Section 3: Price-Fixing
- Section 4: Mergers
R. Preston McAfee

R. Preston McAfee is Vice President and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research, where he heads the Microeconomics Group. He is on leave from his position as the J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics and Management at the California Institute of Technology. He is one of the most influential and regularly cited economists in the world today.
McAfee regularly teaches business strategy, managerial economics and principles of economics. He is the author of over eighty articles published in scholarly economics journals, many of them on auctions and bidding, and co-author of a book Incentives in Government Procurement. He is currently the editor of Economic Inquiry. McAfee served as one of four economists who edit the American Economic Review, the most prominent economics journal, for over nine years, and helped found Theoretical Economics, a new open access journal. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. McAfee taught business strategy at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business in 2000-1, and is the author of Competitive Solutions: The Strategist's Toolkit, published by Princeton University Press in 2003.
McAfee is a recognized expert in industrial organization, and has been hired as a consultant by the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission. McAfee has advised on matters concerning mergers, collusion, price-fixing, electricity pricing, bidding, procurement, sales of government property. In 1995, McAfee extensively advised the Federal Communications Commission on the design of auctions for spectrum to be used for personal communications services. McAfee advised the Federal Trade Commission on the mergers of Exxon and Mobil, and BP and Arco, and testified in the FTC v. Rambus and U.S. versus Oracle on the competitive effects of the Peoplesoft-Oracle merger.
Prior to joining Caltech, McAfee was the Murray S. Johnson Chair in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and served as department chair in 1998. Previously, McAfee was a visiting professor at Caltech and a professor at the University of Western Ontario. McAfee received the Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University in 1980, Master's degrees in both mathematics and economics in 1978, and the Bachelor's degree in economics, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Florida in 1976.
Tracy R. Lewis

Tracy R. Lewis is the Martin L Black Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and Director of the Duke University Innovation Center.
Other positions held by Dr. Lewis include: James Walter Eminent Scholar in Economics, University of Florida, and Associate Director of Energy Studies, Public Utilities Research Center, Director, Program on Workable Energy Regulation (POWER), Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis, Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia, Assistant Director, Program in Natural Resource Economics, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology, Associate Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia, Brookings Fellow, Washington, DC, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona.
In addition to the roles above, Dr. Lewis has served as Economic Advisor for the National Research Council, Academy of Sciences. He has been a consultant to numerous organizations including the Florida Attorney General’s Office, the World Bank Project on Abatement of Greenhouse Gases, Florida Power and Light Company, FTC, Department of Energy, the Rand Corporation, and many others.
Dr. Lewis has published two books, numerous articles, and has served as editor on a wide range of journals including: the Journal of Law Economics and Organization, The B. E. Journals in Industrial Organization, and Review of Network Economics—to name a few. He has been awarded over 15 grants, fellowships and awards.
Tracy earned his BA and PhD at the University of California, San Diego.
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