The micro economy today

by Bradley R. Schiller

This is a continuation of the last edition's strengths of teaching students the principles of macroeconomics by tying economic concepts and theory to provocative illustrations and examples from contemporary world events. Schiller maintains a well-constructed narrative, relating the fundamental concepts and theory of economics to contemporary world events with which students are likely to be familiar. Throughout, global competitiveness motivates cost analysis - a trademark of Schiller's past editions and a proven pedagogical technique for the exploration of microeconomic topics. Schiller's careful, step-by-step examination of topics along with an extensive graphics programme and interesting boxed features encourage students to think critically about economics.

Genres: Economics, Reference, Business, Nonfiction

464 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 1996

Reviews

[Distortedr · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay, this book is not for a your first economics class in college, which is what it is used in, by the way. It covers very complicated concepts in just a few paragraphs with very limited examples of how to understand and grasp them. When you get to graphing and the formula's, that's when the lack of time and effort to explain these concepts in different ways for different learns fails completely. I would expect this to be more of review of economics book. If you want a good textbook to really learn about micro or macro economics, get Understanding Economics, the highest rated one on this site, not this, unless you just want a quick review for a higher level class.

[Damon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Its a mathy-sciency subject, but the writing doesn't reflect this. I'm use to information density - bolded words with concise explanations or that sort of thing where the logic and important information is easy to find/follow and this book does not have that.

[Steph · Rating 4 out of 5]

reading this for class. I don't think I'll be reading the entire text for the class, though.

[Taha]

i need it to read

[Belle Meade School]

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