Microeconomics

Professor Edgar Browning received his Ph.D. in 1971 from Princeton University. He joined the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University in 1984. His fields of interest are public finance, microeconomic theory, public choice, public policy analysis, applied microeconomics, labor economics. Dean Zupan assumed his duties at the Simon School on a full-time basis on January 1, 2004. He is responsible for the administrative and academic functions of the Simon School, and serves as the leading advocate of the School's faculty, programs and students to the business community and other external constituencies. Zupan served as dean and professor of economics at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management from 1997 to 2003. Among his accomplishments at Eller were highly successful fundraising efforts, a record of promoting scholarship, fostering innovation in academic programs and enhanced community outreach. Before his appointment at Arizona, Zupan taught at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, where he also served as associate dean of master's programs. He was a teaching fellow in Harvard’s Department of Economics while pursuing his doctoral studies at MIT, and he has been a visiting faculty member at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. Zupan earned a BA degree in economics from Harvard University and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Microeconomics Chapter 2 Supply and Demand Chapter 3 The Theory of Consumer Choice Chapter 4 Individual and Market Demand Chapter 5 Using Consumer Choice Theory Chapter 6 Exchange, Efficiency, and Prices Chapter 7 Production Chapter 8 The Cost of Production Chapter 9 Profit Maximization in Perfectly Competitive Markets Chapter 10 Using the Competitive Model Chapter 11 Monopoly Chapter 12 Product Pricing with Monopoly Power Chapter 13 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly Chapter 14 Game Theory and the Economics of Information Chapter 15 Using Noncompetitive Market Models Chapter 16 Employment and Pricing of Inputs Chapter 17 Wages, Rent, Interest, and Profit Chapter 18 Using Input Market Analysis Chapter 19 General Equilibrium Analysis and Economic Efficiency Chapter 20 Public Goods and Externalities