Microeconomics Anti-Textbook

A Critical Thinker's Guide - second edition

AvRod Hill,Tony Myatt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science, free from value judgements. The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook demonstrates this to be a myth – one which serves to make such textbooks not only off-puttingly bland, but also dangerously misleading in their justification of the status quo and neglect of alternatives. In this fully updated and expanded edition of their celebrated book, Professors Rod Hill and Tony Myatt lay out the essentials of each topic in the standard texts in a clear and concise way, before presenting an 'anti-text' analysis and critique. Challenging the assumptions, arguments, and models, Hill and Myatt provide the essential guide to decoding the textbooks, and show that real economics is far more interesting - and subversive - than the simplistic version presented to students.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-30
Mått:164 x 238 x 28 mm
Vikt:757 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781783607303

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Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

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Rod Hill is a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus, Canada. Tony Myatt is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus, Canada.

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Rod Hill and Tony Myatt do an excellent job of clearly explaining the problems with how Economics 101 is usually taught while showing how additional insights—overlooked in first-year textbooks—provide a much richer account of how the economy operates. The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook is a valuable resource not only for students but also for anyone who wants to understand both the power and the limits of economic analysis.

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Introduction - Our Goals, Audience, and Principal Themes1. What is economics? Where you start influences where you go2. Introducing economic models3. How markets work (in an imaginary world)4. People as consumers5. The firm6. Market Structure and Efficiency - or why perfect competition isn't so perfect after all.7. Externalities, common access resources and public goods: the ubiquity of market failure8. The marginal productivity theory of income distribution - or you're worth what you can get9. Government, taxation, and the (re)distribution of income: is a just society just too expensive?10. Trade and globalization without the rose-tinted glassesConclusionPostscript: A case study of climate change and the textbooks