Publication: Journal of Economic Education
Volume: Volume 17, No. 3
Issue: Summer 1986
Pages: pp. 201-203
Author(s): J. Wilson Mixon, Jr.
Title: The School-Reform Debate
Abstract: Intermediate microeconomic theory texts mislead by their treatment of the effect of an excise tax on a monopolist's price and output. This note offers a simple demonstration of the correct approach.