W M Wadman

Variable Quality in Consumer Theory

Towards a Dynamic Microeconomic Theory of the Consumer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines consumer decision-making on products and services of variable quality at the level of retail markets. Addresses for the first time consumer-producer interaction at the level of the individual consumer; issues of quality, consumption experience, and willingness-to-pay, as exhibited by individual consumers; and how these issues affect the decision-making process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 180mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780765604651
• ISBN-10: 0765604655
• Artikelnr.: 21901271

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