Microeconomics with spreadsheets

1. Constraint optimization 2. The consumer theory 3. The producer theory 4. General equilibrium 5. Choice and uncertainty 6. Game theory 7. Theory of imperfect competition and industry structure 8. Hidden information models 9. Hidden action 10. The formal logic 11. Basics of set theory 12. Solutions of some equations systems of simultaneous equations 13. Basics of calculus

Microeconomics studies the choices made by individuals under conditions of scarcity of resources and time and the interaction between different decision makers. The scarcity forces economic actors to choose one opportunity among many. The book starts with the mathematical preliminaries and covers consumer theory, producer theory, general equilibrium, game theory, market structure and economics of information.The reader will use numerical tools to analyse problems that cannot be analysed analytically. There is a natural synergy between rigorous proofs and numerical methods, since before using a numerical method one should also prove that a solution exists and analyse whether it is unique, and therefore be able to interpret properly the output of a program.