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Managerial Economics
Managerial Economics
Author(s) : Suma Damodaran

9780195676938, Paperback , 492 Pages
January 2006
Rs. 275
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Description

Managerial Economics details the concepts and techniques used in microeconomic theory and study key applications to business decision-making in organizations.

It is a comprehensive textbook specially designed to meet the need of management students, It explore the core concepts of managerial economics and spplements them with relevant managerial examples, caselets, and detailed case studies. It provides in-depth coverage of the four key components of managerial economics: the household and the firm, price and output decisions in product markets, market failures, and the macroeconomic environment.

Beginning with an overview of managerial economics, the book discusses in detail the household and the consumer, demand analysis, demand estimation and forecasting techniques, the firm as a producer, the production function, and costs. It goes on to discuss the competitive and monopoly model, monopolistic competition and oligopoly, special pricing practices, markets for factor inputs, externalities and public goods, and long-term investment and risk analysis. Finally, it discusses macroeconomic aggregates and provides insights into fiscal and monetary policies.

Users would find this book highly useful for its coverage of the key concepts of managerial economics explained through caselets, numerical examples, illustrations, and tables.

Key Features

  • Examines the challenges faced by business organizations in economic decision-making
  • Explores emerging issues in managerial economics, such as the economics of information and the new economy
  • Contains cases and examples from key areas of managerial economics
  • Provides chapter-end concept review questions, numerical problems, critical thinking exercises, and interesting classroom and field projects accompanied by an Instructors Manual
  • Readership

    Postgraduate management students

    List of contents

  • Preface
  • Foundation of Managerial Economics
  • Household as a Consumer
  • Comparative satisfies and Demand
  • Demand Estimation and Forecasting
  • Firm as a producer
  • Analysis of Production
  • Analysis and Estimation of Costs
  • Monopolistic Competition and oligophony
  • Alternative Pricing Practies
  • Markets for Factor Inputs
  • Externatities and Public Goods
  • Macroeconomic Aggregates
  • Fiscal, Monetary, and Exchange late Policies
  • The New Economy
  • Index
  • Author Details
    Suma Damodaran Ph D, Professor in Economics, XLRI, Jamshedpur, and has over two decades of experience in teaching managerial economics at teh postgraduate level. Formerly a faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, she is active in research and consultancy and has authored numerous papers published in international journals.
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