Microeconomics (Christopher T.S. Ragan) (z-lib.org)

and accounting firms) and very common for large corporations. The number and importance of MNEs have increased greatly over the ...

Financing of Firms The money a firm raises for carrying on its business is sometimes called its financial capital, as distinct f ...

from such retained earnings adds to the value of the firm and hence raises the market value of existing shares. Debt The firm’s ...

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Many firms raise money by issuing shares and selling them to investors. This share certificate for Massey-Ferguson, a company th ...

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Goals of Firms Economists generally make two key assumptions about firm behaviour. First, firms are assumed to be profit-maximiz ...

Ragan Microeconomics Sixteenth Canadian Edition Christopher T.S. Ragan McGILL University ...

Is It Socially Responsible to Maximize Profits? In recent years there has been growing public discussion of the need for firms, ...

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banks or mortgage brokers—making unethical business decisions and thereby earning profits at the expense of other parties? Isn’t ...

Lessons from History image: Yoshi0511/Shutterstock Extensions in Theory image: Den Rise/Shutterstock PEARSON and ALWAYS LEARNING ...

policymakers to design new rules that will make it costly for firms to continue such actions. Various non-governmental organizat ...

Ragan, Christopher T. S., author Microeconomics / Christopher T.S. Ragan, McGill University. — Sixteenth Canadian edition. Inclu ...

occurred when Nike was heavily criticized for contracting its production to Asian “sweatshops,” where workers were treated very ...

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7.2 Production, Costs, and Profits We must now specify a little more precisely the concepts of production, costs, and profits th ...

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The items that make up the first group of inputs are called intermediate products because they are the output of one firm but th ...

Contents List of Boxes ix To the Instructor x To the Student xiv Acknowledgements xv About the Author xvi Chapter 1 Economic Iss ...