Principles of Microeconomics [Paperback]

Joseph E. Stiglitz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997 | ISBN-10: 0393969290 | ISBN-13: 978-0393969290 | Edition: 2 Sub

Principles of Microeconomics has been thoroughly revised, simplified, and updated for the Fourth Edition.

Co-written by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for his research on imperfect markets, and Carl E. Walsh, one of the leading monetary economists in the field, Principles of Microeconomics is the most modern and accurate text available.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz is the author of Making Globalization Work; Globalization and Its Discontents; and, with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. He was chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and served as senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

Carl E. Walsh is professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is widely known for his research in monetary economics and is the author of a leading graduate text, Monetary Theory and Policy (MIT Press). Before joining the Santa Cruz faculty, Professor Walsh was senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, where he continues to be a visiting scholar.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 561 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 2 Sub edition (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393969290
• ISBN-13: 978-0393969290
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,668,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Concise and Integrative, November 18, 2003

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This review is from: Principles of Microeconomics, Third Edition (Paperback)

A very nice book , given by a famous Economist, is suitable for some aggresive students who are fearless to meet challenging. This book caould help you a lot. The examples focus on 97 Asia FC are crucial to form economic ideas.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Prof's Choice, October 11, 2009

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This review is from: Principles of Microeconomics (Fourth Edition) (Paperback)

Our oldest just started college this fall (2009), and her Econ Prof. was so adamant about having this Econ text, he had the kids send back a perfectly good Econ text for this one, so he was quite sure this is what was needed. There is also an inexpensive study guide with which it goes.
(When I said the texts they sent back were "perfectly good", I meant I'd read through the text and study guide, I found them to be sound, as well as a good teaching tool.)
These are the two our daughter's Prof insists upon. His insistance, combined with my own review, as well as our daughters', is what I base my rating upon. I'm sure you'd like more info, and I'm sorry not to be able to provide it, but I was unable to have the text long enough to give a really good going over.

Also, an aside.. I believe one of the previous reviewers was inadvertently reviewing the study guide, and not this book, which is the textbook.)
Thanks for your time!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Errors abound, May 20, 2007

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David R. Foster (Central New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Study Guide for Principles of Microeconomics (Paperback)

The study guide was kind of useful, but it often asked pointless questions about details with which we were completely unconcerned in my Intro Microeconomics class. Also, it often gave the wrong answers for multiple choice questions, resulting in such inaccurate assertions as "The statement that firms in competitive markets are price takers means that average cost equals marginal cost at the minimum of average cost." It contradicted the book as well, defining the long run average cost curve as the straight line running along the bottom of the short-run curves when in actuality such a curve is the minimum average cost curve, and it bizarrely defined the real product wage as the marginal product divided by the product price. This last error wasn't exactly a typo, because it appeared twice. I can only imagine how many microeconomics students this study guide has misled and confused.