Microeconomic Theory

Microeconomic Theory: A Heterodox Approach develops a heterodox economic theory that explains the economy as the social provisioning process at the micro level. Heterodox microeconomics explores the economy with a focus on its constituent parts and their reproduction and recurrence and how the system works as a whole.

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Frederic S. Lee was Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA until he died in 2014. He played an essential role in developing heterodox microeconomic theory and in building a global community of heterodox economists over his thirty-year professional career. He was the founding editor of Heterodox Economics Newsletter (20042009) and the editor of American Journal of Economics and Sociology (20092013). Lee published over 172 journal articles, book chapters, and books, including Post Keynesian Price Theory (1998), A History of Heterodox Economics (2009), and Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics (2016).

Tae-Hee Jo is Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York Buffalo State, USA.

Klappentext

Microeconomic Theory: A Heterodox Approach develops a heterodox economic theory that explains the economy as the social provisioning process at the micro level. Heterodox microeconomics explores the economy with a focus on its constituent parts and their reproduction and recurrence and how the system works as a whole.

Inhalt

List of figures, List of tables, Preface, Notations and abbreviations, Chapter 1 The making of heterodox microeconomics, Chapter 2 Structure, agency, and modeling the economy, Chapter 3 The business enterprise: structures, Chapter 4 The business enterprise: agency and causal mechanisms, Chapter 5 Markets and demand for the social product, Chapter 6 Competition, the market price, and market governance, Chapter 7 Microeconomics and the social provisioning process, Chapter 8 The role of microeconomics in heterodox economics: a view of a heterodox micro theorist, *Appendix 1 Heterodox Microeconomics Course Syllabus, Appendix 2 Narrative-Qualitative-Analytical Problem Sets, Bibliography, Index*