Intermediate microeconomics and its application - Hardcover

Nicholson, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 003089204X ISBN 13: 9780030892042

Publisher: Dryden Press, 1975

Synopsis

INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS AND ITS APPLICATION offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the economics of markets. This proven text uses a managerial focus and includes relevant applications and strong examples, with an algebraic approach, and emphasizes activities that allow you to learn by doing. Your purchase also includes two time-saving access to InfoTrac College Edition's online university library, and online study tools through Economic Applications! With Economic Applications, you'll have online access to study and review materials that will help you succeed in the course, and InfoTrac College Edition lets you save time, save money, and eliminate the trek to the library. Simply log in and access a library of more than 5,000 academic and popular magazines, newspapers, and journals.

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About the Author

Walter Nicholson is the Ward H. Patton Emeritus Professor of Economics at Amherst College and a visiting professor at Ave Maria University, Naples, Florida. Over his teaching career, Professor Nicholson has sought to develop in students an appreciation for the value of economic models in the study of important social questions. He also has enjoyed showing students some of the stranger things that economists have sought to model. Nicholson received his PhD in economics from MIT. Most of his research is in the area of labor economics, especially policy questions related to unemployment.

Review

In my view, the applications are the strength of the text and the reasons why I use this particular text. The students like them too and often comment on them in class.

My overall opinion of the text is that is does a good job of addressing the concepts that I would like to see in an intermediate level text. I primarily like the way the text begins with a discussion of what economic models are, and then flows into the various models from there.

My overall impression is that Nicholson is the best text in the field. There are two themes in Nicholson. First, the text is a study of how economists study markets and, second, the text uses many applications to show the usefulness of the theory. He gets to the essential theory without elegant mathematical models. All of this is in keeping with my approach to the course.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dryden Press
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 003089204X
• ISBN 13: 9780030892042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576