Managerial Economics,
6th Edition

Luke M. Froeb, Brian T. McCann, Michael R. Ward, Mike Shor

ISBN-13: 9780357748237
Copyright 2023 | Published
400 pages | List Price: USD $323.95

Learn how to use managerial economics to diagnose and solve business problems with Froeb/McCann/Ward/Shor's MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: A PROBLEM SOLVING APPROACH, 6E. This breakthrough text, designed specifically for upper-level and M.B.A. students like you, offers a succinct and fast-paced, yet challenging, approach full of invaluable insights. This edition incorporates less math and fewer technical models, graphs and figures than traditional managerial economics texts, while emphasizing the real decisions that today's managers face daily. The authors use models only to help you determine why mistakes are made and how to fix them. The latest economic updates introduce the most recent economic developments and current economic challenges worldwide. You learn how to apply economic theory to even the most formidable business challenges as interactive applications and MindTap digital resources reinforce understanding. Meaningful insights make this learning guide useful now and throughout your business career.

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Part I: PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING.
1. Introduction: Incentive Alignment.
2. The One Lesson of Business.
3. Benefits, Costs, and Decisions.
4. Extent (How Much) Decisions.
5. Investment Decisions: Look Ahead and Reason Back.
Part II: PRICING, COST, AND PROFITS.
6. Simple Pricing.
7. Economies of Scale and Scope.
8. Understanding Markets and Industry Changes.
9. Market Structure and Long-Run Equilibrium.
10. Strategy: The Quest to Keep Profit from Eroding.
11. Foreign Exchange, Trade, and Bubbles.
Part III: PRICING FOR GREATER PROFIT.
12. More Realistic and Complex Pricing.
13. Direct Price Discrimination.
14. Indirect Price Discrimination.
Part IV: STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING.
15. Strategic Games.
16. Bargaining.
Part V: UNCERTAINTY.
17. Making Decisions with Uncertainty.
18. Auctions.
19. The Problem of Adverse Selection.
20. The Problem of Moral Hazard.
Part VI: ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN.
21. Getting Employees to Work in the Firm's Best Interest.
22. Getting Divisions to Work in the Firm's Best Interest.
23. Managing Vertical Relationships.
Part VII: WRAPPING UP.
24. You Be the Consultant.