ISBN: 0719045827 9780719045820

Category: Business & Economics / General

Page count: 305

Starting from a Paretian stand-point, the argument develops the logic of individual choice and its implications for interdependent consumers and producers, and reviews the efficiency conditions appropriate to a general equilibrium framework. This is then used to derive the corresponding Marshallian functions, allowing the conditions for a competitive equilibrium to be established. The argument proceeds to consider different market structures, establishing the relevance for the study of oligopoly of game theoretic approaches: a chapter is devoted entirely to game theory, including repeated games and theories of rational choice.