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Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach
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Professor Varian's lucid prose guides students through the fundamentals of microeconomic analysis while emphasizing real-world economic problems and incorporating coverage of the most innovative subjects in the discipline. The Seventh Edition has been carefully updated and revised, adding a wealth of new applications and examples that analyze the important lessons offered
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Hardcover, 715 pages
Published
August 1st 2005
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 1987)
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Apr 22, 2011
Jake Losh
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it was amazing
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Varian's Intermediate Microeconomics is a fantastic introduction to microeconomic theory. Particularly in the early phase of my first-year graduate economics course work, I often turned to it to gain intuition. It stands the test of time as a great reference.
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It's an easy and comfortable subject to begin with. The author did a good job explain things in detail. Probably too much detail.
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One of the few textbooks I have read almost cover-to-cover. Complete with rather horrific economic jokes (like hitfrogs targeting a scorpion's family). Unfortunately, I have to go over the entire thing again, especially the formulae.
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I told someone I was reading this and he was horrified that Varian doesn't use calculus properly. Bloody neoclassical economists. The models are a fiction and the precision doesn't matter. Skipping calculus is more intuitive anyway.
Introducing model after model became tiring. Ignoring the sketchy chapter on econometrics, there was little to introducing the empirical side of economics. But, Varian makes up for it with the delightful examples.
I started off the textbook loving economics and wishing ...more
Introducing model after model became tiring. Ignoring the sketchy chapter on econometrics, there was little to introducing the empirical side of economics. But, Varian makes up for it with the delightful examples.
I started off the textbook loving economics and wishing ...more

Dec 23, 2011
Bruno Teixeira
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I have left this book marked as "currently reading" for a long time, mainly because I frequently came back to it, in order to re-read some parts. Now, I have read the entire book at least once, some chapters twice, a few even more than that, but I'm now planing on coming back again to this, so I'm changing the shelve to "read".
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Dec 26, 2009
Fran
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Note to self: The most difficult book ever! Main text for Basic Microeconomics course under Prof. Kiyoshi Taniguchi (Ohio State 2001), Fall Term 2003; and Microeconomics course under Prof. Yuichiro Yoshida (Boston College 2001), Winter Term 2004. International Development Program, International University of Japan

I will probably have this textbook again but I really do not think it is very clear for people who do not have background in finance.

Great introductory book. I read this one as I brushed up on my (introductory) microeconomics 13 years later. It seemed very concise and exhaustive - it's not as math-heavy as Mas-Colell et al., but great for conceptual understanding.
I was impressed about how contemporary the teaching of microeconomics (at least as indicated in this book) has become with multiple pages dedicated to the microeconomic auction models used in e.g. online marketing! ...more
I was impressed about how contemporary the teaching of microeconomics (at least as indicated in this book) has become with multiple pages dedicated to the microeconomic auction models used in e.g. online marketing! ...more

Excellent intermediate micro textbook! Bought it in addition to my class' official textbook on the recommendation of a friend, and ended up using this supplemental textbook as my main one. Varian truly does know how to make economics interesting. Highly recommend.
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Don not ever read this book, it is to complicated, the writer gone to far away in mathematics, and you won't understand anything if you are a beginner.
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Superb, quite so! , primer to microeconomics. Not much to say beyond that. Almost gets you jonsing to read its bigger brother, Varian's Microeconomic Analysis.
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It is a beginner's best friend.
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Nov 09, 2015
Pascasie Katabogama
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