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 decideto 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. INDICE: List of Figures. 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 Failureand 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
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-2544-4
- Editorial: Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 440
- Fecha Publicación: 17/10/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés