Economics Is Everywhere - Softcover

Hamermesh, Daniel S.

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ISBN 10: 1429236868 ISBN 13: 9781429236867

Publisher: Worth Publishers, 2009

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Economics Is Everywhere, Third Edition, presents 400 vignettes inspired by everyday events from news articles, films, family, and popular culture. Professor Hamermesh also employs his interactions with students, frequently featuring student insight in these short scenes. Economics Is Everywhere helps students apply what they are learning in their introductory microeconomics courses by examining economics examples that can be found in day-to-day life. In covering topics such as opportunity cost, trade-offs, supply and demand, elasticity, competitive markets and monopoly behavior in a new and inventive way, the vignettes keep students on their toes, eager to learn more!

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About the Author:

Daniel S. Hamermesh is the Sue Killam Professor in the Foundations of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and Professor of Labor Economics at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He taught from 1969-73 at Princeton, from 1973-93 at Michigan State, and has held visiting professorships at universities in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He is a Fellow of Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and past president of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Midwest Economics Association. He authored Labor Demand and The Economics of Work and Pay, and a wide array of articles in labor economics in the leading general and specialized economics journals. His research concentrates on time use, labor demand and unusual applications of labor economics (to suicide, sleep and beauty). He has taught introductory microeconomics since 1968 to more than 14,000 students and has won numerous university awards for his undergraduate teaching. He is a regular guest-blogger at http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/

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