Microeconomics: Theory and Applications With Calculus - Hardcover

Perloff, Jeffrey M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0138008477 ISBN 13: 9780138008475

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2010

Synopsis

For all intermediate Microeconomics courses at the undergraduate or graduate level.Understand the practical, problem-solving aspects of microeconomic theory. Microeconomics: Theory and Applications with Calculus uses calculus, algebra, and graphs to present microeconomic theory using actual examples, and then encourages students to apply the theory to analyze real-world problems. The second edition has been substantially updated and revised, and is now offered with MyEconLab–the online tutorial and assessment solution that personalizes both the teaching and learning experience.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeffrey M. Perloff is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His economic research covers industrial organization, marketing, labor, trade, and econometrics. His textbooks are Modern Industrial Organization (coauthored with Dennis Carlton) and Microeconomics. He has been an editor of Industrial Relations and an associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis and edits the Journal of Industrial Organization Education. He has consulted with nonprofit organizations and government agencies (including the Federal Trade Commission and the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and Agriculture) on topics ranging from a case of alleged Japanese television dumping to the evaluation of social programs. He has also conducted research in psychology. He is a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1972 and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. He was previously an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0138008477
• ISBN 13: 9780138008475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 689