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The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook Rod Hill

The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook By Rod Hill

The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook by Rod Hill


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The go-to, self-contained critical introduction to microeconomics and student guide to decoding economics textbooks

The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook Summary

The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide - 2nd edition by Rod Hill

Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements. The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook demonstrates this to be a myth - one which serves to make such textbooks not only off-puttingly bland but also dangerously misleading in their justification of the status quo and neglect of alternatives.

In this fully updated and expanded edition of their celebrated text, Professors Rod Hill and Tony Myatt lay out the essentials of each topic in a clear and concise way, before presenting an 'anti-text' analysis and critique. Challenging the assumptions, arguments, models and evidence of economics, Hill and Myatt provide the essential guide to decoding the textbooks, and show that real economics is far more interesting - and subversive - than the simplistic version presented to students.

The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook Reviews

Rod Hill and Tony Myatt do an excellent job of clearly explaining the problems with how Economics 101 is usually taught while showing how additional insights-overlooked in first-year textbooks-provide a much richer account of how the economy operates. The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook is a valuable resource not only for students but also for anyone who wants to understand both the power and the limits of economic analysis. * James Kwak, Jesse Root Professor of Law, University of Connecticut, USA *
The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide should be required reading for everyone who has ever read an economics textbook. With clarity, honesty and passion, it demolishes the myth that standard economics texts are unbiased, neutral guides to the world around us. Reading the Anti-Textbook won't just make you a better economist, but a better person too. * Jonathan Aldred, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK *

About Rod Hill

Rod Hill is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Social Science at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. Tony Myatt is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Social Science at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John.

Table of Contents

  • 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.
  • Addendum - What about the efficiency of asset markets?
  • 7. Externalities and 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 on the Global Financial Meltdown

Additional information

NGR9781783607297
9781783607297
1783607297
The Microeconomics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide - 2nd edition by Rod Hill
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2021-12-02
352
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