Study Guide for Micro - Softcover

Hubbard, R. Glenn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0138132801 ISBN 13: 9780138132804

Publisher: Pearson, 2008

Synopsis

Wendine Thompson-Dawson of the University of Utah prepared the study guide to accompany microeconomics, and Nicholas Noble of Miami University prepared the study guide to accompany macroeconomics. Tony Lima of California State University―Hayward, checked the accuracy of the study guides. The study guides reinforce the textbooks and provide students with the following:

<         Chapter summary

<         Discussion of each learning objective

<         Section-by-section review of the concepts presented

<         Helpful study hints

<         Additional Solved Problems to supplement those in the text

<         Key terms with definitions

<         A self-test

About this title

About the Author:

Glenn Hubbard policymaker, professor, and researcher.

R.Glenn Hubbard is the Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and Professor of Economics in Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a director of Automatic Data Processing, Black Rock Closed-End Funds, Dex Media, Duke Realty, KKR Financial Corporation, and Ripplewood Holdings. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1983. From 2001–2003, he served as Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and from 1991–1993, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. Glenn Hubbard’s fields of specialization are public economics, financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, macroeconomics, industrial organization, and public policy. He is the author of more than 90 articles in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and numerous private foundations.

 

Tony O’Brien award-winning professor and researcher.

Anthony Patrick O’Brien is a professor of economics at Lehigh University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. He has taught principles of economics for more than 15 years, in both large sections and small honors classes. He received the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was formerly the director of the Diamond Center for Economic Education and was named a Dana Foundation Faculty Fellow and Lehigh Class of 1961 Professor of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Anthony O’Brien’s research has dealt with such issues as the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry, the sources of U.S. economic competitiveness, the development of U.S. trade policy, the causes of the Great Depression, and the causes of black–white income differences. His research has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Industrial Relations, and the Journal of Economic History. His research has been supported by grants from government agencies and private foundations. In addition to teaching and writing, Anthony O’Brien also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Socio-economics.

From the Back Cover:

Where are you headed?

 No matter what your career, you will need to understand how economic forces affect you and your work.

 Hubbard/O’Brien, Microeconomics 1/e gives you the motivation and the tools to understand those forces.

 You’re on your way.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0138132801
• ISBN 13: 9780138132804
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 544