
Pre-Owned Incentives: Motivation and the Economics of Information (Paperback) 052147857X 9780521478571
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- ISBN: 9780521478571
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Trade paperback
- Language: English
- Pages: 367
- Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 367 p. Contains: Tables, Line drawings.
- This book investigates situations in which incentives, contracts or other economic devices can be employed in a wide range of settings to prevent the pursuit of self-interest from being institutionally- or self-defeating, including the operation of insurance markets, voting, auctions, general resource allocation, public goods, labor markets, higher education, the savings-and-loan crisis, and managers' and shareholders' behavior. Professor Campbell's treatment of these issues in the economics of information, mechanism design, and game theory may be followed by anyone with a basic knowledge of single-variable calculus and microeconomic theory. Readers learn by working carefully through examples to grasp economic principles, rather than by following proofs of general theorems. Upper-level undergraduates, master's-level students, and graduate students seeking supplementary reading in practice-oriented economic theory will find the material particularly useful.
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- Book formatPaperback
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreSOCIAL SCIENCE / General
- Publication dateAugust, 1995
- Pages367
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- ISBN: 9780521478571
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Trade paperback
- Language: English
- Pages: 367
- Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 367 p. Contains: Tables, Line drawings.
- This book investigates situations in which incentives, contracts or other economic devices can be employed in a wide range of settings to prevent the pursuit of self-interest from being institutionally- or self-defeating, including the operation of insurance markets, voting, auctions, general resource allocation, public goods, labor markets, higher education, the savings-and-loan crisis, and managers' and shareholders' behavior. Professor Campbell's treatment of these issues in the economics of information, mechanism design, and game theory may be followed by anyone with a basic knowledge of single-variable calculus and microeconomic theory. Readers learn by working carefully through examples to grasp economic principles, rather than by following proofs of general theorems. Upper-level undergraduates, master's-level students, and graduate students seeking supplementary reading in practice-oriented economic theory will find the material particularly useful.
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