What Every Economics Student Needs to Know and Doesn't Get in the Usual Principles Text

Name: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know and Doesn't Get in the Usual Principles Text
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ISBN: 9780765639233

ISBN-10: 0765639238

ISBN-13: 9780765639233

Edition: 2014

Authors: John Komlos

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This short book explores a core group of 40 topics that tend to go unexplored in an Introductory Economics course. Though not a replacement for an introductory text, the work is intended as a supplement to provoke further thought and discussion by juxtaposing blackboard models of the economy with empirical observations. Each chapter starts with a short refresher of standard neoclassical economic modeling before getting into real world economic life. Komlos shows how misleading it can be to mechanically apply the perfect competition model in an oligopolistic environment where only an insignificant share of economic activity takes place in perfectly competitive conditions. Most economics…

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/19/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English