Microeconomics for Public Managers

List of Tables.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Organizational Alternatives.

Part I: Institutional Setting:.

1. Managerial Economics in Public and Nonprofit Administration: An.

Overview.

2. Characteristics of the Government and Private Nonprofit Sectors.

Part II: Consumer Theory and Public Goods:.

3. Demand and Supply.

4. Estimating Client Choice.

5. Market Failure and Public Choice.

Part III: Production Theory and Public Administration:.

6. Production and Costs.

7. Market Structure in Government and Nonprofit Industries.

8. Selecting the Right Niche and Setting Client Fees.

9. Strategic Goals: If Not Profit, What?.

Part IV: Input Markets and Cost--Benefit Analysis:.

10. Employing Labor and Capital.

11. Cost--Benefit Analysis.

Index