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Demonstrates how calculus is used to understand the fundamental principles behind familiar economic concepts and how actual economic information is used in policy analysis. Includes many numerical, mathematical, and graphical examples. DLC: Microeconomics.
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Go elsewhere for Econ theory  2007-09-18
This book is outstanding at taking a difficult subject and making it even more inaccessible. Textbooks like this are why kids don't want to study Econ today. Dry writing, poor examples, and errors make this book a chore to learn from. If it were possible to give it zero stars, I would.
A better resource for your rusty Calc will be Haeussler, Paul, and Wood's Introductory Mathematical Analysis - which includes a section on the Lagrangian method. This is a really great (and fun, yes, fun) calc book.
A better microeconomic theory book is the Wetzstein Microeconomic Theory text.
Finally, for lighter introduction check out any of the recent econ books such as "The Undercover Economist", "Undressing the naked science", etc.
There are much better ways to make micro interesting to learn than from this book...
Much better than the other reviewers indicate  2003-11-21
Microeconomics with Calculus is a great textbook. this is the ideal book for all those economics students who grow weary of wordy explanations of economic models when a touch of calculus say so much more. a great book for people unassociated with economics, but who have backgrounds in any math-related disciplines.
Pretty good despite the criticisms 2001-05-15
This book isn't perfect, but it is much better than the other reviewers indicate. The best thing about it is that it is more or less self-contained. All of the necessary math can be found in the first chapters, and there are lots of worked-out examples. It's pretty well written too. Problems include: too many typos and an ugly typeface. The graphs are nicely done, though. Its most obvious competitors are Intermediate Microeconomics by Varian and Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions by Nicholson. Varian hides all the math in brief appendices and a supplementary workbook, and Nicholson's book is good but much too expensive. Hopefully a third edition will address some of the problems with this book. In the meantime, it is a reasonable choice for a microeconomics text.
Worst Microeconomics Book 2000-12-05
This is simply the worst economics book I have ever read. There are typos everywhere, the author does a horrible job of tying the economic theory to the math, and the presentation of economic material gives very few applied examples. This book makes a good sleeping aid.
A good book for undergraduation 2000-06-20
This book is a very nice book to be used in undergraduation level. For those who got a good basis in calculus, this book fits perfectly. After understanding all this book , the stundent will be ready for an advanced text. .
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