PREFACE

PART 1: ECONOMIC AGENTS
CHAPTER 1: CONSUMER THEORY
1.1 Primitive Notions
1.2 Preferences and Utility
1.3 The Consumer's Problem
1.4 Indirect Utility and Expenditure
1.5 Properties of Consumer Demand
1.6 Exercises

CHAPTER 2: TOPICS IN CONSUMER THEORY
2.1 Duality: A Closer Look
2.2 Integrability
2.3 Revealed Preference
2.4 Uncertainty
2.5 Exercises

CHAPTER 3: THEORY OF THE FIRM
3.1 Primitive Notions
3.2 Production
3.3 Cost
3.4 Duality in Production
3.5 The Competitive Firm
3.6 Exercises

PART 2: MARKETS AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 4: PARTIAL EQUALIBRIUM
4.1 Perfect Competition
4.2 Imperfect Competition
4.3 Equilibrium and Welfare
4.4 Exercises

CHAPTER 5: GENERAL EQUALIBRIUM
5.1 Equilibrium in Exchange
5.2 Equilibrium in Competitive Market Systems
5.3 Equilibrium in Production
5.4 Contingent Plans
5.5 Core and Equilibria
5.6 Exercises

CHAPTER 6: SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
6.1 The Nature of the Problem
6.2 Social Choice and Arrow's Theorem
6.3 Measurability, Comparability, and Some Possibilities
6.4 Justice
6.5 Social Choice and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem
6.6 Exercises

PART 3: STRATEGIC BEHAVIOUR
CHAPTER 7: GAME THEORY
7.1 Strategic Decision Making
7.2 Strategic Form Games
7.3 Extensive Form Games
7.4 Exercises

CHAPTER 8: INFORMATION ECONOMICS
8.1 Adverse Selection
8.2 Moral Hazard and the Principal-Agent Problem
8.3 Information and Market Performance
8.4 Exercises

CHAPTER 9: AUCTIONS AND MECHANISM DESIGN
9.1 The Four Standard Auctions
9.2 The Independent Private Values Model
9.3 The Revenue Equivalence Theorem
9.4 Designing a Revenue Maximising Mechanism
9.5 Designing Allocatively Efficient Mechanisms
9.6 Exercises

MATHEMATICAL APPENDICES
CHAPTER A1: SETS AND MAPPINGS
A1.1 Elements of Logic
A1.2 Elements of Set Theory
A1.3 A Little Topology
A1.4 Real-Valued Functions
A1.5 Exercises

CHAPTER A2: CALCULUS AND OPTIMISATION
A2.1 Calculus
A2.2 Optimisation
A2.3 Constrained Optimisation
A2.4 Optimality Theorems
A2.5 Separation Theorems
A2.6 Exercises

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