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Price Theory and Applications

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ISBN-10: 0324421613

ISBN-13: 9780324421613

Edition: 7th 2008

Authors: Steven Landsburg

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Written in the same humorous, reader-friendly style as Professor Landsburg's widely popular trade book, The Armchair Economist, the lively seventh edition of PRICE THEORY AND APPLICATIONS adopts an inductive, hands-on approach that enables students to learn economics by doing. And it requires no knowledge or use of calculus. Using a student-friendly, easy-to-understand format, the book thoroughly develops the standard concepts of intermediate price theory as well as timely nontraditional issues not found in many texts -- such as the economics of information. Social welfare is also highlighted as a unifying concept throughout. The book's rigorous, meticulous development of economic theory is…    
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List price: $388.95
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cengage South-Western
Publication date: 8/2/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 768
Size: 8.30" wide x 10.10" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 3.146
Language: English

Steven E. Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester.nbsp; He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, More Sex is Safer Sex, The Big Questions, two textbooks in economics, a forthcoming textbook on general relativity and cosmology, and over 30 journal articles in mathematics, economics and philosophy.nbsp;His current research is in the area of quantum game theory.nbsp;He blogs daily at www.TheBigQuestions.com . For over ten years, he wrote the monthly "Everyday Economics" column in Slate magazine, and has written regularly for Forbes and occasionally for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He appeared as a commentator on…    

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