Microeconomics (Irwin Series in Economics) - Softcover

Slavin, Steve

9780256171723: Microeconomics (Irwin Series in Economics)

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ISBN 10: 0256171726 ISBN 13: 9780256171723

Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1995

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This comprehensive text should be useful for community colleges, technical schools, and many four-year schools. The topics are tackled in a straightforward and humorous way with a historical approach. There is a wealth of problems and exercises and end-of-chapter questions.

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Pedagogy improved!
Questions answered: The author has revised and increased the number of 'Questions for Further Thought and Discussion at the end of each chapter. He has provided answers to these questions in the improved Instructor's Manual.
Graphs explained: Explanatory captions have been added to more than two-thirds of the graphs in the text.
Supplement package heavily revised by two long-time users.
The Test Bank (coauthor Jim Watson, Jefferson College) contains over 8,500 questions, including 2,500 new and revised questions, 22% more than in 5e.
The Instructor's Manual (coauthor Mark Maier, Glendale Community College) contains new sections with print and web resources, teaching ideas for lectures and collaborative group learning exercises.
Chapters reorganized and streamlined.
Chapters 3 and 17 have been combined into a single supply and demand chapter and placed where Chapter 3 is now. Chapter 3 now contains sections on reading supply and demand curves; and Chapter 5 concentrates on drawing supply and demand curves.
Chapter 5 now contains a combination of Chapters 17, 18, and 20 from the previous edition and is titled Demand, Supply and Equilibrium.
Chapter 6 (The Elasticities of Demand and Supply), Chapter 8 (Cost), and Chapter 9 (Profit Maximization) are new chapters based on material from Chapters 18, 20, 21, and 22 of the fifth edition.
Slavin's low price continues to make it one of the best values on the market. It's approximately $25 less than other principles texts.
The built-in study guide has perforated pages that students can tear out and hand in to the instructor. Students don't need to purchase an additional, expensive supplement; they can write in the exercises at the end of each chapter.
The author's humorous writing style and historical approach to economics is a hit with students, who might otherwise find the subject dry or intimidating. Steve Slavin is an experienced and respected author in addition to over 30 years experience teaching the principles course, he has written 11 other math and economics books.
Dozens of self-help boxes anticipate and answer frequently asked questions.
The book reviews math that students should have learned in middle school. The better prepared students can skip this material, but this review enables students to start on a level playing field.
Many advanced work boxes provide more challenging material, giving adventurous student an opportunity to learn and master difficult material. This optional material can easily be skipped.
An International Icon alerts the reader throughout the text to global perspectives found in the discussion at hand.