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Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategies and Tactics

By James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris

14th Edition © 2017
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Teach your students how to think analytically and make better decisions as future business leaders with MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: APPLICATIONS, STRATEGIES AND TACTICS, 14E. This timely edition illustrates how today’s effective managers apply economic theory and techniques to solve real-world everyday decision problems. The book’s seasoned author team McGuigan/Moyer/Harris balances a solid foundation of traditional microeconomic theory with extensive exploration of the latest analytical tools in managerial economics. Students master game-theoretic tactics, information economics, and organizational architecture.

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Teach your students how to think analytically and make better decisions as future business leaders with MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: APPLICATIONS, STRATEGIES AND TACTICS, 14E. This timely edition illustrates how today’s effective managers apply economic theory and techniques to solve real-world everyday decision problems. The book’s seasoned author team McGuigan/Moyer/Harris balances a solid foundation of traditional microeconomic theory with extensive exploration of the latest analytical tools in managerial economics. Students master game-theoretic tactics, information economics, and organizational architecture.

SESSION-SIZE PACKETS OFFER READINGS, ASSIGNMENTS, AND MORE FOR YOUR FLEXIBILITY: The latest content from this edition is now available in session packet filled with student exercises, author videos, text readings, and assignments. Aplia quizzes offer insightful feedback and subtle as well as basic insights regarding correct and incorrect answers.

REAL-WORLD EMPHASIS HIGHLIGHTS HANDS-ON PRACTICE: This edition provides more than 300 applications and examples from today’s practice that offer hands-on experience with the decision-making challenges students will face as managers -- as well as the tools most effective for solving those challenges. Each chapter opens with a unique Managerial Challenge illustrating an economic analysis problem related to the chapter’s material that today’s managers could face.

MORE INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE EMPHASIZES BUSINESS ISSUES IN CHINA, INDIA, AND THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE: This edition integrates international issues throughout, illustrating how they relate to managerial efficiency and shareholder wealth maximization. Additionally, intriguing “International Perspectives” illustrate how students can apply chapter concepts to problems facing today’s managers in an increasingly global climate. Readers gain a better understanding of the international impact of economics.

AUTHORS OFFER DIVERSE APPROACHES TO KEY ANALYTICAL CONCEPTS: This edition presents key analytical concepts in several different ways -- including tabular analysis, graphical analysis, spreadsheet, and algebraic analysis -- making difficult material more accessible. Your students are able to learn in the format with which they are most comfortable. When elementary differential calculus is used, at least one alternative mode of analysis also is presented. The book also offers a strong finance emphasis.

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Chapters

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. Introduction
Part II. Demand and Forecasting
Part III. Production and Cost
Part IV. Pricing and Output Decisions: Strategy and Tactics
Part V. Organizational Architecture and Regulation
Appendix A. The Time Value of Money
Appendix B. Differential Calculus Techniques in Management
Appendix C. Tables
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Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction and Goals of the Firm
Preview this section ↗
1-1. What Is Managerial Economics? ↗
1-2. The Decision-Making Model ↗
1-2a. The Responsibilities of Management ↗
1-2b. Moral Hazard in Teams ↗
1-3. The Role of Profits ↗
1-3a. Risk-Bearing Theory of Profit ↗
1-3b. Temporary Disequilibrium Theory of Profit ↗
1-3c. Monopoly Theory of Profit ↗
1-3d. Innovation Theory of Profit ↗
1-3e. Managerial Efficiency Theory of Profit ↗
1-4. Objective of the Firm ↗
1-4a. The Shareholder Wealth-Maximization Model of the Firm ↗
1-5. Separation of Ownership and Control: The Principal-Agent Problem ↗
1-5a. Divergent Objectives and Agency Conflict ↗
1-5b. Agency Problem ↗
1-6. Implications of Shareholder Wealth Maximization ↗
1-6a. Caveats to Maximizing Shareholder Value ↗
1-6b. Residual Claimants ↗
1-6c. Goals in the Public Sector and Not-for-Profit Enterprises ↗
1-6d. Not-for-Profit Objectives ↗
1-6e. The Efficiency Objective in Not-for-Profit Organizations ↗
Summary ↗
Exercises ↗
Case Exercises ↗
Chapter 2. Fundamental Economic Concepts
2-1. Demand and Supply: A Review
2-1a. The Diamond-Water Paradox and the Marginal Revolution
2-1b. Marginal Utility and Incremental Cost Simultaneously Determine Equilibrium Market Price
2-1c. Individual and Market Demand Curves
2-1d. The Demand Function
2-1e. Import-Export Traded Goods
2-1f. Individual and Market Supply Curves
2-1g. Equilibrium Market Price of Gasoline
2-2. Marginal Analysis
2-2a. Total, Marginal, and Average Relationships
2-3. The Net Present Value Concept
2-3a. Determining the Net Present Value of an Investment
2-3b. Sources of Positive Net Present Value Projects
2-3c. Risk and the NPV Rule
2-4. Meaning and Measurement of Risk
2-4a. Probability Distributions
2-4b. Expected Values
2-4c. Standard Deviation: An Absolute Measure of Risk
2-4d. Normal Probability Distribution
2-4e. Coefficient of Variation: A Relative Measure of Risk
2-5. Risk and Required Return
Summary
Exercises
Case Exercise

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