Economic Chronicle

Author: Zhang Shixian
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: How much is a human life worth? What is the price of a body? How high is Yao Ming's opportunity cost of going to college? Can a lighthouse be a private good? Which is stronger, a tiger or a cow? Is an option just like "thirsting for plums"? Why did cable TV prices rise? Is ticket scalping beneficial or harmful to resource allocation? Can a monopoly in the power grid be broken? The Romance of Economics provides you with fresh and interesting answers through vivid character stories. This book attempts to write The Romance of Economics in the form of chapters, using the more popular Three Kingdoms characters to spread the basic theories of economics, allowing Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, and others to make more contributions to the general public. The main content discussed in this book is about microeconomics.