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by: Parkin, Michael

ISBN: 9780133423907 | 0133423905

For the principle of microeconomics course. This book is also suitable for all readers interested in economics.

Thoroughly updated, stripped of technical detail where possible, extensively illustrated with well-chosen photographs, enlivened with new applications features that focus on issues at play in today’s world, responsive to the suggestions of reviewers and users, and seamlessly integrated with MyEconLab: These are the hallmarks of this eleventh edition of Microeconomics.

 

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, readers “read between the lines” to think critically about a news article relating to the issue, demonstrating how thinking like an economist can bring a clearer perspective to and deeper understanding of today’s events. Readers will begin to think about issues the way real economists do and learn how to explore difficult policy problems and make more informed decisions in their own economic lives.

 

Parkin is so committed to currency that he uploads news articles almost daily to MyEconLab^®, the online assessment and tutorial system that accompanies the text. Assessment questions based on the Economics in the News articles are uploaded periodically so that instructors can assign recent articles within MyEconLab.

 

0133423905 / 9780133423907 Microeconomics Plus NEW MyEconLab with Pearson eText --- Access Card Package

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0133019942 / 9780133019940 Microeconomics

0133021769 / 9780133021769 MyEconLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Microeconomics

 

Note: MyEconLab is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.

I. Introduction
1. What is Economics?
2. The Economic Problem

II. How Markets Work
3. Demand and Supply
4. Elasticity
5. Efficiency and Equity
6. Government Actions in Markets
7. Global Markets in Action

III. Households’ Choices
8. Utility and Demand
9. Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices

IV. Firms and Markets
10. Organizing Production
11. Output and Costs
12. Perfect Competition
13. Monopoly
14. M... MOREonopolistic Competition
15. Oligopoly

V. Market Failure and Government
16. Public Choices and Public Goods
17. Economics of the Environment

VI. Factor Markets, Inequality, and Uncertainty
18. Markets for Factors of Production
19. Economic Inequality
20. Uncertainty and Information

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.