Microeconomics by Dominick Salvatore
Fully revised and expanded, this fifth edition of Microeconomics: Theory and Applications presents all the standard topics of traditional microeconomic theory while offering a modern approach that reflects the many exciting recent developments in the field. With its student-friendly writing style and clear presentation of graphs, this is an ideal text for undergraduate courses in intermediate microeconomics and business programs. Features of the Fifth Edition *Offers a balance of traditional microeconomic topics while addressing contemporary issues and concerns *Introduces an important international dimension to microeconomics, reflecting the strong trend toward globalization in tastes, production, and distribution in today's world *Presents an "at the Frontier" section in each chapter that highlights the most exciting recent examples of more advanced theoretical developments in microeconomics New and Expanded Treatment in the Fifth Edition *Includes electronic commerce, behavioral economics, auctioning airwaves, effect of outsourcing on employment and wages in the United States, fields of education and lifetime earnings, effect of taxation on business decisions *Provides more than 130 new and updated real-world examples of how microeconomic theory can be used to analyze and possibly resolve important present-day economic problems *Offers expanded treatment of important topics such as game theory; financial microeconomics; the new international economies of scale; economics of information; and market structure, efficiency, and regulation *Features Internet site addresses for the most important topics in each chapter Website A companion website is now available at www.oup.com/us/salvatore. This practical learning tool offers updated material, additional examples, and PowerPointR lecture slides for each textbook chapter
Microeconomics is an excellent text. . Salvatore has done a great job integrating the more traditional with the 'newer' topics in the field. * Rosemary Thomas Cunningham, Agnes Scott College *
Excellent writing style, coverage, applications, and extensions . . . much superior to the other texts I have examined. * John P. Cochran, Metropolitan State College of Denver *
Salvatore excels in explaining the fundamentals. . . . This book does a great job at teaching the 'meat and potatoes' of intermediate microeconomics in a friendly way. * Anne E. Winkler, University of Missouri-St. Louis *
This is perhaps the best text on microeconomics at the senior or beginning graduate level. Clear, concise, and full of very appropriate applications. * K. Choudhury, Southern University *
Excellent writing style, coverage, applications, and extensions . . . much superior to the other texts I have examined. * John P. Cochran, Metropolitan State College of Denver *
Salvatore excels in explaining the fundamentals. . . . This book does a great job at teaching the 'meat and potatoes' of intermediate microeconomics in a friendly way. * Anne E. Winkler, University of Missouri-St. Louis *
This is perhaps the best text on microeconomics at the senior or beginning graduate level. Clear, concise, and full of very appropriate applications. * K. Choudhury, Southern University *
Dominick Salvatore is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Fordham University in New York and Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Finance University. He is Chairman of the Society for Policy Modeling and consultant to the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of forty-eight books including Schaum's Outline of Microeconomic Theory, Fourth Edition (2006), which was translated into ten languages and sold more than one-half million copies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195336108 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195336100 |
| Title | Microeconomics |
| Author | Dominick Salvatore |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2008-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 768 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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