Microeconomics : A Critical Companion

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Diagrams -- Preface, Preliminaries and Acknowledgements -- 1 Locating Microeconomics -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Microeconomics as History of Economic Thought -- 1.3 From Marginalist Revolution ... -- 1.4 ... Through Methodology ... -- 1.5 ... To Implosion onto TA2 -- 1.6 From Implosion onto TA2 to Explosion into Economics Imperialism -- 1.7 From Old to New Economics Imperialism -- 1.8 Further Thoughts and Readings -- 1.9 Appendix: Can the Mainstream be Defended? -- 2 Elusive Consumers and the Theory of Demand -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 The Reduced Consumer -- 2.3 How Consumer Theory Got its Spots -- 2.4 Consumer Theory Hoist by its Own Petard -- 2.5 Consumer Theory as Economics Imperialism -- 2.6 From Consumer Theory to Systems of Provision -- 2.7 Broader Implications -- 2.8 Further Thoughts and Readings -- 3 From Production to Supply and Beyond to General Equilibrium? -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Production and Cost Functions Rule, OK? -- 3.3 General Equilibrium: A Fantasy Glass, Half Empty or Half Full? -- 3.4 Further Thoughts and Readings -- 4 Competition Is as Competition Does? -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2 Perfect Entry and Exit, and Monopoly -- 4.3 From Monopoly to Oligopoly -- 4.4 A Little Game Theory -- 4.5 A Simple Model of Entry Deterrence -- 4.6 Collusion -- 4.7 Discriminating Models -- 4.8 Path Dependence -- 4.9 The Coase 'Theorem' -- 4.10 Towards Alternatives -- 4.11 Further Thoughts and Readings -- 5 Production Function Rules, Not OK -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.2 The Aggravating Aggregate Production Function -- 5.3 Total Factor Productivity -- 5.4 Measuring Something Called TFP in Practice -- 5.5 From Mismeasurement to Misinterpretation -- 5.6 Further Thoughts and Readings -- 6 Labour Markets -- 6.1 Overview -- 6.2 From Labour as Fish ... -- 6.3 ... To Human Capital Theory