Microeconomics, Social Sciences 

Genre/Form: Lehrbuch
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Alchian, Armen Albert, 1914-
Exchange and production.
Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., ©1977
(OCoLC)568728471
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Armen A Alchian; William Richard Allen
ISBN: 0534004938 9780534004934
OCLC Number: 2683991
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 510, 37, 14 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: How much mathematics and graphs? --
Choice and exchange --
Demand: the relation of price to amount demanded --
Market prices as social coordinators --
Information costs, property rights, public goods, and philanthropy --
Allocation of consumable goods over time: futures markets --
Capital value, interest rates, and wealth --
Production, specialization, and prices --
Organization and coordination of joint production --
The business firm: control and coordination of production --
Costs and production --
Free-market control of production and prices: price-takers (a first approximation) --
Market power: price searchers in open markets --
Monopoly power: restricted markets --
Derived demand and substitution in production --
Wages and employment --
Wealth: saving, investing --
Coordinating the economy --
Inflation.
Responsibility: Armen Alchian and William R. Allen.