B Keating

Buch

Keating, B: Microeconomics for Public Managers

Beschreibung

Nonprofit firms and public institutions are both like and unlike private for-profit firms; this book concentrates on using economic analysis to understand the ways in which NFP enterprises make decisions about which goods and services to provide, how they allocate resources to provide them, and how they decide to whom they should be made available.This book does not offer a description and rationale of NFP enterprises and public institutions. Rather, it is designed to describe economic decision making relevant to nonprofit managers and to examine the more important applications of economics that managers in these firms in practice.

Autor

Barry P. Keating teaches Non-profit Management, ManagerialEconomics, and Forecasting to undergraduate and graduate classes atthe University of Notre Dame. He conducts business forecastingseminars internationally for corporate professionals. He is also aHeritage Foundation Salvatori Fellow.

Maryann O. Keating teaches Principles of Economics,Graduate Survey of Economics, and Public Finance at IndianaUniversity South Bend. They have three adult children and live inSouth Bend, Indiana.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2008
• Abmessung: 249mm x 179mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 926g
• ISBN-13: 9781405125437
• ISBN-10: 1405125438
• Artikelnr.: 22054018

Rezensionen

"I think this book begins to fill a serious gap in themarket. Many students are turned off by economics because theydon't see its applicability for their jobs. This book makeseconomics relevant to the NFP manager."
Robert T. Greenbaum, Ohio State University

"This book does a fine job meeting the needs of PublicAdministration students."
John Graham, Rutgers University

"The Keatings' approach of using cost-benefitanalysis as a capstone is for the best, since it gets students touse what they have learned about markets and the informationcontained in market prices, and what they have learned about marketfailure, in a unified application."
Michael Rushton, Indiana University

"The exercises are a lot more useful for publicmanagement students than the ones in standard economicstextbooks. They are the kind I end up writing formyself."
John McPeak, Syracuse University