Microeconomics and Behaviour - Hardcover

Robert H. Frank; Ian Parker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070951667 ISBN 13: 9780070951662

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Higher Education, 2007

Synopsis

This text is now available in a new edition – Please see ISBN 0070741778

Frank Parker is the only thoroughly Canadianized Intermediate Microeconomics text. This, along with its stress on problem solving and developing economic thinking, sets it apart from the competition. The authors have adopted a strategy of using puzzles, humour, and arresting examples to involve students in the process of acquiring the concepts. A continuing strength of the text is that it applies game-theoretic models throughout, rather than simply in the discussion of imperfect competition. The math flexibility allows for the rigor of calculus or non-calculus based course through extensive appendices and a very unique Basic Math Review on the web.

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About the Authors

Robert H. Frank received his M.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971, and his Ph.D. in economics in 1972, also from U.C. Berkeley. He is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1972 and where he currently holds a joint appointment in the department of economics and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has published on a variety of subjects, including price and wage discrimination, public utility pricing, the measurement of unemployment spell lengths, and the distributional consequences of direct foreign investment. For the past several years, his research has focused on rivalry and cooperation in economic and social behaviour.

Ian C. Parker received his B.A. (Hons.) in economics and English from the University of Manitoba in 1966, and completed a Masters program in economics and in English at the University of Toronto in 1968. As a volunteer with Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO), he then worked for three years as an economist with the National Development Corporation of Tanzania. He subsequently received his doctorate in economics from Yale University. Since 1975, he has taught at the University of Toronto. He has conducted economic research in East and West Africa and in Europe, and has served as an economic consultant in the area of media economics. His principal current research preoccupations include the economics of the Internet, the contributions of Keynes's theory of probability to the economics of information and uncertainty, and the theoretical and practical implications of fixed capital for the economics of communications systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Higher Education
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070951667
• ISBN 13: 9780070951662
• Binding: Hardcover