This book teaches microeconomics as a way of looking at the world, using plenty of new applications and examples to demonstrate the theory. Because it uses calculus (only in footnotes), this book is considered to be in the upper mid-range in its mathematical rigor. An optimal balance of theory and applications is maintained by working from the specific to the general—with many lively and interesting examples used as a means of developing economic theory in a careful and rigorous way. A seven-part organization covers numerous topics under the headings of: an introduction to microeconomics, individual choice, production and cost, markets for goods, resource markets and general equilibrium, imperfect competition, and uncertainty and asymmetric information. For individuals trying to apply the theory of microeconomics to the economics of the real world.

Microeconomics (5th Edition)

Business & Money

Eaton, B. Curtis

Eaton, Diane F.

Allen, Douglas W.

Economics

PRENTICE/HALL

This sixth edition is appropriate for second-year university courses in intermediate microeconomics. It teaches microeconomics as a way of looking at the world, using plenty of new applications and examples to demonstrate the theory. Because it uses calculus (only in footnotes), this text is considered to be in the upper mid-range in its mathematical rigor.

Microeconomics: Theory With Applications

Eaton, Buford Curtis

Pearson College Div

This text teaches microeconomics as a way of looking at the world, using a wide variation of applications and examples to demonstrate theory.

Microeconomics: Theory with Applications

Economics provides people with a way to understand everyday human behaviour . Microeconomics: Theory with Applications teaches students how to look at the world in a different way. Using a variety of applications and lively and interesting examples, this new edition brings the theory to life. A Real-world emphasis is demonstrated throughout the text to reinforce the understanding of economic theory and at the same time to show how theory can be used to explore specific economic models to address specific questions.

Microeconomics: Theory with Applications (8th Edition)

Pearson Education Canada

Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Europe, North America, and eventually much of the world—with profound effects on socioeconomic and cultural conditions.In The Institutional Revolution, Douglas W. Allen offers a thought-provoking account of another, quieter revolution that took place at the end of the eighteenth century and allowed for the full exploitation of the many new technological innovations. Fundamental to this shift were dramatic changes in institutions, or the rules that govern society, which reflected significant improvements in the ability to measure performance—whether of government officials, laborers, or naval officers—thereby reducing the role of nature and the hazards of variance in daily affairs. Along the way, Allen provides readers with a fascinating explanation of the critical roles played by seemingly bizarre institutions, from dueling to the purchase of one’s rank in the British Army. Engagingly written, The Institutional Revolution traces the dramatic shift from premodern institutions based on patronage, purchase, and personal ties toward modern institutions based on standardization, merit, and wage labor—a shift which was crucial to the explosive economic growth of the Industrial Revolution.

The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World (Markets and Governments in Economic History)

University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests the implications of those models against data sets from across North American agriculture, as well as against historical case studies such as eighteenth-century European land contracts and the late nineteenth-century Bonanza farms in the United States.
The book is organized in three parts. Part I examines the classic question of what determines the optimal choice between fixed rent and cropshare arrangements, concluding that it is determined by a trade-off between incentives to overuse rented land and incentives to underreport shared output. Part II tests several predictions derived from a standard risk-sharing model of contracts and finds little evidence that risk sharing is important in contract choice. Part III extends the transaction costs analysis to broader organizational issues. It introduces seasonality and timeliness costs as forces influencing the gains from specialization and the costs of contracting, and finds that farm ownership and farm organization are routinely shaped by these forces.

The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture

Lueck, Dean

Mit Pr

The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests the implications of those models against data sets from across North American agriculture, as well as against historical case studies such as eighteenth-century European land contracts and the late nineteenth-century Bonanza farms in the United States.
The book is organized in three parts. Part I examines the classic question of what determines the optimal choice between fixed rent and cropshare arrangements, concluding that it is determined by a trade-off between incentives to overuse rented land and incentives to underreport shared output. Part II tests several predictions derived from a standard risk-sharing model of contracts and finds little evidence that risk sharing is important in contract choice. Part III extends the transaction costs analysis to broader organizational issues. It introduces seasonality and timeliness costs as forces influencing the gains from specialization and the costs of contracting, and finds that farm ownership and farm organization are routinely shaped by these forces.

The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture (Mit Press)

MIT Press]

Most Principles of Microeconomics textbooks are long, boring, and expensive. They start by introducing thirty terms (most of which are never returned to), spend the next four chapters shifting two lines around, and then proceed to discuss a number of details better left for an intermediate course. They seem to go out of their way to avoid teaching actualprinciples!Economic Principles: Seven Ideas for Thinking... About Almost Anythingis about the fundamental ideas that every economic argument is based on: maximization, substitution, opportunity cost, and the like. It is designed to be engaging, focused, and effective.Appropriate for a Principles of Microeconomics course, the book’s main emphasis is on explaining economic behavior, rather than crunching numbers. It is full of interesting real-life examples, applications, and humorous stories — there is no mention of a “widget”! The overriding emphasis of Economic Principles is on explanation and critical thinking. Repetitive curve shifting, pointless arithmetic exercises, and moot theoretical policy discussions are not to be found. Rather, the book is filled with questions taken from popular culture, history, and world events. Economic Principles engages students without overburdening their wallets or their backpacks.

Economic Principles: Seven Ideas for Thinking ... About Almost Anything

PEARSON/LEARNING SOLUTIONS

When most students think of “principles of economics” textbooks, they think, “long, boring, and expensive.” Economic Principles: Seven Ideas for Thinking... About Almost Anything is designed to be none of those things. Instead, the book is relatively short, and focuses on the essential ideas in microeconomics; it is not encyclopedic, and doesn't read like an encyclopedia. Appropriate for a Principles of Microeconomics course, the book’s main emphasis is on explaining economic behavior, rather than crunching numbers. It is full of interesting real-life examples, applications, and humorous stories–and no mention of “widgets”! There are several end-of-chapter appendices to for those who want to better understand the mathematical models; however, the entire book can be read and understood without them. 
The overriding emphasis of Economic Principles is on explanation. Repetitive curve shifting and theoretical policy discussions are not to be found, as the most important aspect of a principles course is to teach students how to think like an economist, and this begins with explaining behavior. Economic Principles will engage students in this way, without overburdening their wallets or their backpacks.

Economic Principles: Seven Ideas for Thinking ... About Almost Anything (3rd Edition)

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Microeconomics (5th Edition)

Microeconomics: Theory With Applications

Microeconomics: Theory with Applications

Microeconomics: Theory with Applications (8th Edition)

The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World (Markets and Governments in Economic History)

The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World (Markets and Governments in Economic History)

The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture

The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture (Mit Press)

Economic Principles: Seven Ideas for Thinking ... About Almost Anything

Economic Principles: Seven Ideas for Thinking ... About Almost Anything (3rd Edition)