Synopsis
Microeconomics and Behaviour, third edition, is an accessible yet intellectually challenging and engaging textbook for students.
It develops core analytical and technical tools and embeds them in a collection of real-world examples and applications to illuminate the power and versatility of the economic way of thinking.
With this approach, students develop economic intuition and are stimulated to think more deeply about the technical tools they learn, and to find more interesting ways to apply them. This enables students to not just understand microeconomics, but to think like economists themselves, and to develop a lasting interest in the discipline.
Key Features
• Fully updated chapters, including new and expanded material on international labour markets, the gig economy,
behavioural game theory and nudge theory.
• Extensive pedagogical features such as examples, key terms and definitions, in-chapter exercises, chapter summaries,
and review questions and problems.
• Economic Naturalist examples that show how economic principles can be used to explain experiences and observations of everyday life. New examples include: “Why do firms benefit from the gig economy?”, “Why is self-checkout becoming the norm in shops?”, and “Why do online retailers have flagship stores?”.
Connect® Resources
Available with McGraw-Hill Education’s Connect®, the well-established online learning platform, which helps faculty and institutions improve student outcomes and course delivery efficiency. In addition to math's tutorials and SmartBook, the award winning adaptive reading experience, the new Connect® features for this edition include:
• Economic Application Based Activities that provide students with valuable practice, using problem solving skills to apply their knowledge to realistic scenarios. Students progress from understanding basic concepts to using their knowledge to analyse complex scenarios and solve problems.
• Economic Naturalist graphing questions which have been newly developed to complement this key pedagogical feature from the textbook.
• Interactive Graphs that help students see the relevance of the subject matter by providing visual displays of real data for students to manipulate. All graphs are accompanied by assignable assessment questions and feedback for students.
NEW TO CONNECT FOR 2023
In response to customer needs, 58 brand new Problems have been added to Connect to further develop students practical application skills and cement theoretical understanding.
To learn more, visit mheducation.co.uk/connect
About the Authors
Edward Cartwright is a Senior Lecturer for Economics at University of Kent.
Robert H. Frank is the H. J. Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, emeritus, at Cornell’s Johnson School of Management, where he taught from 1972 to 2020. After receiving his B.S. from Georgia Tech in 1966, he taught math and science for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nepal. He received his M.A. in statistics in 1971 and his Ph.D. in economics in 1972 from The University of California at Berkeley. He also holds honorary doctorate degrees from the University of St. Gallen and Dalhousie University. During leaves of absence from Cornell, he has served as chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board (1978–1980), a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1992–1993), Professor of American Civilization at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2000–2001), and the Peter and Charlotte Schoenfeld Visiting Faculty Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business in 2008–2009. His papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Polit-ical Economy, and other leading professional journals, and for more than two decades, his economics columns appeared regu-larly in The New York Times.His research has focused on rivalry and cooperation in economic and social behavior. His books on these themes include Choosing the Right Pond (Oxford, 1985), Passions Within Reason (W. W. Norton, 1988), What Price the Moral High Ground? (Princeton, 2004), Falling Behind (University of California Press, 2007), The Economic Naturalist (Basic Books, 2007), The Economic Naturalist’s Field Guide (Basic Books, 2009), The Darwin Economy (Princeton, 2011), Success and Luck (Princeton, 2016), and Under the Influence (Princeton, 2020), which have been translated into 24 languages. The Winner-Take-All Society (The Free Press, 1995), co-authored with Philip Cook, received a Critic’s Choice Award, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and was included in BusinessWeek’s list of the 10 best books of 1995. Luxury Fever (The Free Press, 1999) was named to the Knight-Ridder Best Books list for 1999. Professor Frank is a co-recipient of the 2004 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. He was awarded the Johnson School’s Stephen Russell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004, 2010, 2012, and 2018, and the School’s Apple Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005. His introductory microeconomics course has graduated more than 7,000 enthusiastic economic naturalists over the years.
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