Microeconomics: Principles and Policy with Xtra! Student CD-ROM and InfoTrac College Edition - Softcover

Baumol, William J.; Blinder, Alan S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0030355176 ISBN 13: 9780030355172

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 2002

Synopsis

Microeconomics: Principles and Policy remains a proven leader in the world of economics. Considered as the best policy focused principles text in the market, William J. Baumol and Alan S. Blinder's text offers a fundamental tool for learning economics. With nine editions to perfect their message, the authors continue to equip students with the knowledge and tools they need to apply modern economics to their world--now and in the future. This is all the more true today, as the U.S. economy enters its first recession in more than a decade.

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About the Authors

William J. Baumol received his B.S.S. at the College of the City of New York and his Ph.D. at the University of London. He is professor of economics at New York University and senior research economist and professor emeritus at Princeton University. He is a frequent management consultant to major firms in a wide variety of industries in the United States and other countries as well as to a number of governmental agencies. He has been president of the American Economic Association, and three other professional societies. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, created by the U.S. Congress, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, founded by Benjamin Franklin. Dr. Baumol is the author of more than 35 books as well as hundreds of journal and newspaper articles that have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Alan S. Blinder earned his B.A. at Princeton University, his M.A. at the London School of Economics and Ph.D. at MIT. He teaches at Princeton University and is the author of the best seller, After the Music Stopped, about the financial crisis and its aftermath. Dr. Blinder served on President Clinton's first Council of Economic Advisers and then as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, thereby playing a role in formulating both the fiscal and monetary policies of the 1990s. Dr. Blinder, now a regular columnist for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, has written newspaper and magazine columns on economic policy for more than thirty years. He is a past Vice President and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: South-Western College Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030355176
• ISBN 13: 9780030355172
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 479