Managerial Economics

Part I: Some PreliminariesCHAPTER 1: Managers, Profits, and MarketsCHAPTER 2: Demand, Supply, and Market EquilibriumCHAPTER 3: Marginal Analysis for Optimal DecisionsCHAPTER 4: Basic Estimation TechniquesPart II: Demand AnalysisCHAPTER 5: Theory of Consumer Behavior CHAPTER 6: Elasticity and Demand CHAPTER 7: Demand Estimation and ForecastingOnline Topic 1: Estimating and Forecasting Industry Demand for Price-Taking FirmsPart III: Production and Cost AnalysisCHAPTER 8: Production and Cost in the Short RunCHAPTER 9: Production and Cost in the Long RunCHAPTER 10: Production and Cost EstimationOnline Topic 2: Linear ProgrammingPart IV: Profit-Maximization in Various Market StructuresCHAPTER 11: Managerial Decisions in Competitive MarketsCHAPTER 12: Managerial Decisions for Firms with Market PowerCHAPTER 13: Strategic Decision Making in Oligopoly MarketsPart V: Advanced Managerial Decision MakingCHAPTER 14: Advanced Pricing TechniquesOnline Topic 3: Pricing Multiple Products Related in ProductionCHAPTER 15: Decisions under Risk and UncertaintyCHAPTER 16: Government Regulation of BusinessOnline Topic 4: The Investment DecisionAPPENDIX: STATISTICAL TABLES

Christopher R. Thomas is currently Exide Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at University of South Florida. He worked for two years as an energy economist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory before joining the faculty at USF in 1982.
Chuck Maurice was professor emeritus of economics at Texas A&M University. He spent 30 years in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M, where he served as department head from 1977 through 1981 and held the Rex B.