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Microeconomics - Study Guide

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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!

This product needs better warning and a more specific (accurate) description, "may not" and "does not" are significantly diferent terms when refering to the missing package contents of the Kindle edition versus the bounded print edition. The product describes what it ought to contain and gives a vague term for what a different version "may" contain; this is very misleading. For those who need MyEconLab Access code for their course DO NOT get the kindle edition. It would be appropriate for Amazon to have accurate descriptions for the product they sell as oppposed to the "maybe" this key feature is included and maybe it's not.

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.

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.

This is no book. It is hole punched pages you put into a binder. You cannot resell it! Which sucks for any university student wanting their money back. It is also the wrong version used in my university. I couldn't log onto MyEconLab because our edition is the 7th, while the one I bought was the 9th. Make 100% sure you have the right textbook if you'll be doing assignments online!

Frankly, I find this text rather elementary. It is written on about an 8th grade level and this ruins the otherwise good examples and thorough analysis. For anyone remotely interesting in actually learning economics (rather than just memorizing the book to get A's on tests), a supplementary source is needed.

Sycophants in my economics class memorized the book and merely recited it on the exam. The book overly encourages rote memorization and presents most of the material as incontrovertible.

The Parkin book is dumb down but so much so that you dont understand Microeconomics the way you'll need to if you plan on taking advanced theory, money and banking, etc.

I prefer McConnell Brue who has been the staple and bible of Microeconomics for years!

Smart universities choose McConnell Brue and dumb ones like Micro econ at Rice seem to choose Parkin.

This book is terrible, unclear and contributed to my thorough distaste for the otherwise interesting subject of economics.