Product Description: There has been explosive progress in the economic theory of uncertainty and information in the past few decades. This subject is now taught not only in departments of economics but also in professional schools and programs oriented toward business, government and administration, and public policy...read more

Featuring extensive coverage of information, uncertainty, and game theory, this volume is a new edition of a classic textbook in intermediate microeconomics. It contains over a hundred examples illustrating the applicability of economic analysis not only to mainline economic topics but also issues in politics, history, biology, the family, and many other areas. The text generally describes recent research published in scholarly books and articles, providing students with a good idea of the scientific work done by professional economists in a variety of areas. Jack Hirshleifer is Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles Amihai Glazer is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine David Hirshleifer holds the Ralph M. Kurtz Chair of Finance at The Ohio State University.

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Product Description: Aims to strike a balance between economic theory and applications while describing how economics can help in understanding market behaviour. As well as personal and financial decisions, other areas of behaviour in areas such as politics and crime are also linked to basic economics...read more

Product Description: This volume collects together the work of Jack Hirshleifer, both theoretical and applied, and aims to demonstrate that there can be a single integrated approach valid for the topic of time, certainty and information. The author begins with the theoretical foundations required to understand time and uncertainty in economic decision-making, going on to link the simpler analysis of passive adaptations to uncertainty - the balancing of risks - to the more difficult study of active adaptations, of information-seeking behaviour...read more

Product Description: Conflict, disaster, and destruction—despite their historical and current significance—have not yet been adequately studied from the economic point of view. Economic Behaviour in Adversity brings together ten important essays, several previously unpublished, dealing with the choices people make in times of disaster and conflict...read more

Product Description: Book by Hirshleifer, Jack