Editorial Review:
Real-world problems and issues in the text and in featured Applications provide abundant concrete, living examples to show microeconomic theory in action. The text goes beyond basic theory to explain theories and applications from important contemporary fields of economics, including industrial organization, labor economics, international trade, public finance, transaction costs, adverse selection, limited information, contract theory, and resource economics. Game theory is applied in six chapters in the second half of the book. The unique Solved Problem featurespotlighting real economic issues such as firms' strategic decisions and the making of government policy - uses a step-by-step approach to walk students through the solution of qualitative and quantitative problems. Drawn with care and precision, full-color graphs and other figures convey microeconomic theories clearly and accessibly.
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Great supplemental material for my MBA Micro class  2008-03-25
This book helped me understand concepts that were not clear from the class alone. The book also helped me with the class assignments. I however, did not read the book cover to cover so I can't say whether it is a good book from which to learn Microeconomics.
the worst microeconomics textbook i have ever read  2006-05-04
very confusing, non-focusing writing style plus author's splurge of mathematical demonstrations everywhere in the book makes this text book very hard to understand and offers no help for people to grasp the beauty of the economic theory.
Worst Intro Micro Text in the market 2002-12-18
I was required to buy this book when I took a course taught by the author, Jeff Perloff. This book is the absolute worst micro text I've ever come across. It's confusing and unorganized much like the author himself. If you're looking for a good intro micro text, I suggest you look elsewhere. I highly recommend Nicholson's Microeconomic Theory.
An okay book  2002-12-02
This book was used for my microeconomics class. It helped me learn the material, but there's still room for improvement.Having the textbook be so focused on specific examples was not such a good idea, because it made it difficult to understand what do to in a more general problem, or in any problem that deviates from this example. The discussions of concepts, however, were excellent. I wish the derivations were more integrated into the text instead of in an appendix in the back, and that they were better explained - it's frustrating to spend an hour trying to figure out which steps were left out. The problems in the textbook were challenging but good, however, unless you're at least a econ grad student or some kind of genius, you're probably not going to be able to do many of them just by reading the textbook...which brings me to my last point...if you're taking a class in which this book is mandatory, by all means, get it, it's useful...but if you are trying to learn or brush up on micro without the aid of a class, look for another book
Overpriced  2002-03-10
I had to purchase this book for an economics course. It does have some good examples and applications, but other times the book just bogs down and is impossible to read. Lastly, the price tag is ridiculious... Teachers, don't make your students waste their money on this.
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