Microeconomics: Theory & Applications [Hardcover]

Edgar K. Browning (Author), Mark A. Zupan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471230642 | ISBN-13: 978-0471230649 | Publication Date: May 6, 2003 | Edition: 8

Provides a rich array of over 100 examples that show how theory works in real companies, industry, and government.
* Applications throughout the book and in four unique applications chapters demonstrate the importance of microeconomics to sound decision making.
* Makes microeconomics interesting, relevant, and easy to understand.

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From the Back Cover

What makes a Microeconomics text work?

What makes this a book that works? Outstanding quality…precise technical coverage…student-motivating writing style…engaging applications…

Browning and Zupan’s Microeconomics offers the liveliest writing, the right sequence of topics, and exceptionally well developed graphs with unusually thorough explanations….all at the right level for people learning microeconomics. This edition contains over 400 review questions and problems for ample practice review material and analytical exercises.

But what really gets readers thinking and doing microeconomics are the engaging applications in the Eighth Edition! Here are some of the new ones:

• The Cross of Growing Gridlock
• Price Ceilings Can Be Deadly for Buyers
• BK Versus KFC in the UK in the Wake of BSE
• The Decline of Public Transit as a Means of Getting to Work
• Sales Tax Avoidance and Online Commerce
• Income and Substitution Effects and Home Ownership
• Network Effects and the Diffusion of Communications Technologies and Computer Hardware and Software
• School Choice is Nothing New
• The Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns, Caffeine Intake and Exam Performance
• The Management Function and Decreasing Returns to Scale: “The Plan”
• The Effect of 9-11-01 on U.S. Production Costs
• Learning by Doing and the Model T
• The Importance of Thinking at the Relevant Margin
• The Method of Mothballing
• Languish and Anguish at LaGuardia
• Protecting Steel Jobs Steals Jobs
• Why Sugar Import Quotas Were Job Losers with Respect to LifeSavers
• Cooperative Lawyers: An Oxymoron
• The Internet and the Price of Life Insurance
• Non-Free California Freeways
• “‘O Give Me Some Property Rights…”

About the Author

Edgar K. Browning is the Alfred F. Chalk Professor in Economics at Texas A&M University and his specialty is Public Economics. He earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1971. A selected list of his publications includes " A Neglected Welfare Cost of Monopoly- and Most other Product Market Distortions," Journal of Public Economics, 1997; The Non-Tax Wedge," Journal of Public Economics, 1994; "The Marginal Cost of Redistribution," Public Finance Quarterly, 1993; "On the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation," American Economic Review, 1987; "The Trade-Off Between Equality and Efficiency," Journal of Political Economy, 1984. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 624 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 8 edition (May 6, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471230642
• ISBN-13: 978-0471230649
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy to understand, yet fairly thorough, August 13, 2002

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This review is from: Microeconomics: Theory & Applications (The Addison-Wesley Series in Economics) (Hardcover)

I was taught intermediate micro using this book. For that class, I found this book helpful and easy to follow. I still use it as a reference for simple concepts that I've forgotten.

5.0 out of 5 stars Microeconomics Study Guide, December 26, 2011

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This review is from: Microeconomics, Study Guide: Theory and Applications (Paperback)

Not one of my favorite topics; however, this book saved me in the class. It allows you to apply the concepts from the textbook and class and determine your level of comprehension.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, August 2, 2010

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This review is from: Microeconomics: Theory & Applications (Loose Leaf)

The book was exactly as described. I believe it was my bad to not completely comprehend that it was in a binder instead of an actual book. That's okay though. Other than that, it's great.