Microeconomics

Thijs ten Raa has been affiliated with NYU and Erasmus University and is now Associate Professor of Economics at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He has published eight books, including the acclaimed The Economics of Benchmarking (2009), and numerous articles. In 2006 he was awarded the Wassily Leontief Centennial Medal.

PART I: ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES
Economic Building Blocks and the Importance of Elasticities
Scarcities and how they are Priced
PART II: THE DEMAND SIDE OF THE ECONOMY
Utility and Expenditures
Demand: Income and Substitution Effects
Measuring Consumer Well-being
PART III: THE SUPPLY SIDE OF THE ECONOMY
Production Analysis: Inputs, Outputs, Coefficients, and Productivity
Production Functions
Supply and Market Power
PART IV: BUILDING THE MODEL OF THE ECONOMY
Equilibrium
Efficiency Theory
PART V: PUTTING THE MODEL TO USE
Measuring Economic Performance
Market Forms and Competition Policy
Public Economics
PART VI: MARKET IMPERFECTIONS
Game Theory and the New Industrial Organization
Analyzing Uncertainty and Missing Information
Search, Transaction, and Switching Costs.