Overview
- Advances a critical thinking perspective on economics, emphasizing the limits of simplifying assumptions
- International perspective in its treatment of economic institutions and in the choice of policy issues
- Integrates new developments, e.g. greater influence of game theory, treatment of institutional and behavioral factors
- Places economics within a larger, interdisciplinary context by calling attention to the subject’s boundaries with other social sciences, natural sciences, history and philosophy
- Detailed explanation to allow instructors to shift classroom time away from lecturing and toward workshops, research projects and other active learning methods
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Institutions
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A Closer Look at Markets
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microeconomics
Book Subtitle: A Fresh Start
Authors: Peter Dorman
Series Title: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37434-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-37433-3Published: 01 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52249-3Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-37434-0Published: 11 June 2014
Series ISSN: 2192-4333
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4341
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 533
Number of Illustrations: 116 b/w illustrations