Microeconomics ISE

3rd Edition
126056889X · 9781260568899
Improve YOUR world. Dean Karlan and Jonathan Morduch’s Microeconomics 3e is built around the central concept that economics is a powerful and positive tool that students can use right now to improve their world. Microeconomics uses examples and iss… Read More
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Chapter 1: Economics and Life

Chapter 2: Specialization and Exchange

Chapter 3: Markets

Chapter 4: Elasticity

Chapter 5: Efficiency

Chapter 6: Government Intervention

 Chapter 7: Consumer Behavior

Chapter 8: Behavioral Economics: A Closer Look at Decision Making

Chapter 9: Game Theory and Strategic Thinking

Chapter 10: Information

Chapter 11: Time and Uncertainty

Chapter 12: The Costs of Production

Chapter 13: Perfect Competition

Chapter 14: Monopoly

Chapter 15: Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

Chapter 16: The Facts of Production

Chapter 17: International Trade

Chapter 18: Externalities

Chapter 19: Public Goods and Common Resources

Chapter 20: Taxation and the Public Budget

Chapter 21: Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination

Chapter 22: Political Choices

Chapter 23: Public Policy and Choice Architecture

Improve YOUR world. Dean Karlan and Jonathan Morduch’s Microeconomics 3e is built around the central concept that economics is a powerful and positive tool that students can use right now to improve their world. Microeconomics uses examples and issues that resonate with students’ experience to draw them in and frame ideas to help develop their economic intuition. 


- Using a balanced approach, students are able to sharpen their own understanding of topics by focusing on the data and evidence behind the effects they see. Students are equipped to understand and respond to real-life situations thought their new economic lens and challenged to decided how they will improve their world. 


- The third edition delivers core economic concepts along with exciting new ideas in economic though and strives to keep students engaged by confronting issues that are important in the world.


- This text combines a familiar curriculum with material from  new research and applied areas such as finance, behavioral economics, and the political economy. Students and faculty will find content that breaks down barriers between what takes place in the classroom and what happens in our nation and our world, with applications that are driven by empirical evidence, data, and research.


- Karlan and Morduch show students that economics is a tool to improve one's own life and promote better public and business policies in the world. At the same time, this third edition challenges students to reach their own conclusions about how they will improve their world.