W M Wadman

Variable Quality in Consumer Theory

Towards a Dynamic Microeconomic Theory of the Consumer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of consumer decision-making on products or services of variable quality. It addresses consumer-producer interaction at the level of the individual consumer; quality, consumption experience and willingness-to-pay; and how these issues affect the decision-making process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 184mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780765604644
• ISBN-10: 0765604647
• Artikelnr.: 21321041

Autorenporträt

W.M. Wadman

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Evolution of Variable Quality in Economic Thought
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Early Attempts to Introduce Variable Quality
Chapter 3: Theory of the Consumer and Variable Quality
Chapter 4: Theory of the Consumer and Variable Quality
Chapter 5: Quantity-Quality Trade-Offs
Chapter 6: Wants, Characteristics, Price Indices, and Variable Quality
Part I: A New Economic Theory of the Consumer
Chapter 7: Interpretations of the Houthakker Constraint
Chapter 8: Consumer Surplus, Willingness-to-Pay, Perception, and b i
Chapter 9: Stability of b i , Attractors, and Self-Perception
Chapter 10: Willingness-to-Pay, Targeting, Learning, and Demand Prices
Chapter 11: Consumer-Producer Interaction and the Market
Chapter 12: Transaction Regions, Neighborhoods, and Targeting
Chapter 13: Individual Consumer Demand from Quality-Quantity Space
Chapter 14: Individual Consumer Demand from x i x j Space
Chapter 15: Individual Consumer Demand from x i x j Space