David M. Kreps has developed a text in microeconomics that is
both challenging and "user-friendly." The work is designed for the
first-year graduate microeconomic theory course and is accessible
to advanced undergraduates as well. Placing unusual emphasis on
modern noncooperative game theory, it provides the student and
instructor with a unified treatment of modern microeconomic
theory--one that stresses the behavior of the individual actor
(consumer or firm) in various institutional settings. The author
has taken special pains to explore the fundamental assumptions of
the theories and techniques studied, pointing out both strengths
and weaknesses.
The book begins with an exposition of the standard models of
choice and the market, with extra attention paid to choice under
uncertainty and dynamic choice. General and partial equilibrium
approaches are blended, so that the student sees these approaches
as points along a continuum. The work then turns to more modern
developments. Readers are introduced to noncooperative game theory
and shown how to model games and determine solution concepts.
Models with incomplete information, the folk theorem and
reputation, and bilateral bargaining are covered in depth.
Information economics is explored next. A closing discussion
concerns firms as organizations and gives readers a taste of
transaction-cost economics.
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