Microeconomics (8th Edition) [Paperback]

Michael Parkin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321416619 | ISBN-13: 978-0321416612 | Publication Date: February 24, 2007 | Edition: 8th

Parkin’s Microeconomics is a worldwide leader because it provides a serious, analytical approach to the discipline using the latest policy and data. Parkin trains students to think like economists by offering a clear introduction to theory and applying the concepts to today’s events, news, and research.

 

From our global food shortage to global warming, economic issues permeate our everyday lives. Parkin brings critical issues to the forefront. Each chapter begins with one of today’s key issues, and additional issues appear throughout the chapter to show the real-world applications of the theory being discussed. When the chapter concludes, students “read between the lines” to think critically about a news article relating to the issue, demonstrating how thinking like an economist helps make informed decisions.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Michael Parkin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Professor Parkin has held faculty appointments at Brown University, the University of Manchester, the University of Essex, and Bond University. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics and as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics. Professor Parkin’s research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in over 160

publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He became most visible to the public with his work on inflation that discredited the use of wage and price controls. Michael Parkin also spearheaded the movement toward European monetary union. Professor Parkin is an experienced and dedicated teacher of introductory economics.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 552 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8th edition (February 24, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321416619
• ISBN-13: 978-0321416612
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First-time micro students NEED an understandable text!, April 17, 2000

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Mark Lawson (Asheville, N.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microeconomics with EIA 5.0 (Package) (Chapters 1-21, plus 36) (Paperback)

I have used Parkin as an auxilliary source for my micro 102 classes for years. His examples are products that can be related to by 19-year-olds, AND he does not use wheat or other perfectly competitive products to exemplify a downward sloping demand curve! Many other do, which causes great confusion among the students. What is wrong with careful, thoughtful, comprehensive explanations of concepts that are difficult for first time micro students? He covers several complicated topics that are left out of the more highly rated texts by Mankiw and others. I am wondering if we are even rating the same book...I give it the maximum rating!

5.0 out of 5 stars I laughed, I cried!!!, December 25, 2011

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ryan - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Microeconomics (9th Edition) (Paperback)

This is a textbook. if your reading this it's most likely because you need it for a class and don't really care about a review of it.

I bought mine to use at Eastern Michigan University for a class.

Book shipped quickly and was as described.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Item 'front page' on amazon site misleading, August 31, 2009

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This review is from: Microeconomics, Student Value Edition plus MyEconLab (9th Edition) (Paperback)

Be sure to read the entire description of this item. It says softcover, (and was shipped to my son with a receipt marked 'hardcover')but it's a NO COVER 3 hole punched copy of the book. Due to that my son doesn't feel that he'll be able to sell this book for hardly anything once he is done with it; and he can't send it back for refund because he needs it NOW. The shipping took quite a while (maybe someone had to xerox the book after we ordered it!), he was behind the 8 ball already when it arrived.