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This new edition of the highly acclaimed text offers a comprehensive description of the current body of microeconomic theory and its applications to operations research. It explains the logic of analysis and offers detailed discussions on how business practice can become more practical with keen abstract analysis of its problems. The standard topics of microeconomics and mathematical economics, as well as a number of new topics have been covered. The organization of the book has been revised on the basis of economic area covered. Table of Contents Part One: Analytic Tools Of Optimization Optimization And An Example From Inventory Analysis Some Elementary Mathematics Marginal Analysis Maximization, Minimization, And Elementary Differential Calculus Linear Programming Duality Nonlinear Programming Kuhn-Tucker Methods. Part Two: Demand And Produc-Tion Theory Demand Curves, Utility Surfaces And Indifference Maps On Empirical Determination Of Demand Relationships Production And Cost Linear Programming And The Theory Of Production Comparative Statics And Maximization: Consumers And Firms Towards Observability: Revealed Preference And Expenditure And Cost Functions. Part Three: Firms, Games And Decisions The Firm And Its Objectives Market Structure, Pricing, And Output Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Theory Game Theorydecision Theory. Part Four: General Equilibrium, Welfare And Distribution General Equilibrium And The Theory Of Money General Equilibrium And Welfare Economics Input-Output Analysis Activity Analysis And General Equilibrium Theory Of Distribution Capital And Investment Decisions Capital And Distribution Theory Answers To Problems Index