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The Third Edition continues to supply the building blocks of microeconomic analysis: a thorough treatment of optimization and equilibrium methods, coupled with numerous examples of their application. The Third Edition expands on the earlier editions in two ways. First, the coverage has been rewritten and rearranged. Second, chapters have been added on game theory, oligopol
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Hardcover, Third Edition, 576 pages
Published
March 17th 1992
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published March 31st 1980)
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Came to this book because of recommending from my professor. In reality, I don't like it as much as Micro Theory of Mas-Colell. It's probably more difficult than Kreps's book but less theoretical and mathematical than Micro theory of Mas Colell.
The math summary isn't good as I hope. Maybe this one in Mas Colell is much better.
It suits third-year undergrad or pre-master students than graduate level. ...more
The math summary isn't good as I hope. Maybe this one in Mas Colell is much better.
It suits third-year undergrad or pre-master students than graduate level. ...more

Not nearly as mathy as Mas-Colell, Whinston, and Green (MWG), and much more conversational in prose (for a microeconomic theorist, Varian is a great writer), I did find this textbook to be a great supplement to the primary materials in the core micro curriculum of my PhD program. I did find that Varian's explanation of the integrability problem - a way to solve the problem of deriving an expenditure function from observed consumer demand behavior - was better than MWG.
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Hmmmm...Its hard to understand this book. But i must read this because my Professor luv this book. This book is one of main handbook to advance micro subject.
Now, I still read this book and cann't never stop because my comprehensive will be come, hikhikhik! ...more
Now, I still read this book and cann't never stop because my comprehensive will be come, hikhikhik! ...more

... :P as boring as microeconomics can be... However it explains Slutcki's and Hick's substitution and income effects quite well
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Did not really read it but rather STUDIED it during my years at university. Easier that other handbooks to start reading/studying Economics.
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