The microeconomics anti-textbook : a critical thinker's guide
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- ISBN: 1783607297
- ISBN: 9781783607297
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Physical Description:
xiii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Edition: Second edition.
- Publisher: London ; New York : Zed Books, Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc , 2022
- Copyright: ©2022
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General Note: | Previous edition published as: The economics anti-text book, 2010. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction - Our Goals, Audience, and Principal Themes - 1. What is economics? Where you start influences where you go - 2. Introducing economic models - 3. How markets work (in an imaginary world) - 4. People as consumers - 5. The firm - 6. 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 failure - 8. The marginal productivity theory of income distribution - or you're worth what you can get - 9. Government, taxation, and the (re)distribution of income: is a just society just too expensive? - 10. Trade and globalization without the rose-tinted glasses - Conclusion - Postscript: A case study of climate change and the textbooks |
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Subject: | Economics Microeconomics Critical thinking Textbook bias Economics |
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