Microeconomics

by Stephen L. Slavin

Steve Slavin€™s lively and comprehensive student-friendly, step-by-step approach, couple with its low price and built-in Study Guide are very attractive to adopters. Instructors and students like the author€™s humorous anecdotes, direct language, and easy conversational style. The text is interactive and encourages active learning. With the help of over 15 reviewers, this new edition is not only more streamlined and up-to-date but it also introduces global perspectives to many discussions early on and throughout the text. The author discusses the impact of technology and e-business on the recent economic expansion. A new interior design reflects the contemporary flavor that this traditional text now possesses.

552 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Steve Slavin, Ph.D., is a professor of economics at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey.

Reviews

[Junaid Maqbool]

Good

[Hans · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an intro book so I imagine I shouldn't be too harsh on it, but I have a few complaints. The author tries to make the subject more readable by attempting to be humorous. Instead at times it comes across as belittling like he believes his audience to be morons. I can't imagine this text book being used anywhere outside of community colleges. Here is a writing sample "Unlike Europe, 200 years ago America had an almost limitless supply of UNOCCUPIED fertile land" (2003, p.3). Now I shouldn't have to point out why that is irritating to read, maybe on a high school or elementary school level, though still wrong, it would be at least not uncommon.

[Nathan Newcomer · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great economics textbook. Slavin has good style and the examples are well-done. Even the formulas and calculations are easy to understanding. Slavin does a great job at explaining difficult concepts in an understandable manner.

[Kim Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was really surprise how well it was written. it wasn't just boring information but had a good humor that was added to it.

[Madi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was extremely helpful in learning about the microeconomy. I used this book to learn the fundamentals of microeconomics and it helped me understand how the economy works and why individuals make the consumer choices that they do. This book helped me succeed in my microeconomics class because it broke down the information into very simple concepts that were easily understood.

The three main things that I liked about this book in particular are:

-It's organization

-The way that it talks about general concepts and breaks things down instead of throwing a bunch of random details together that don't make sense

-It had quite a few visuals so it is good for visual learners