Introduction to Economic Analysis
Introduction to Economic Analysis by R. Preston McAfee
English | July 24, 2006 | ISBN: 160049000X | 328 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | July 24, 2006 | ISBN: 160049000X | 328 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
A free, open source textbook that covers both introductory and intermediate material. It also introduces many topics that are usually missed by intermediate courses, like risk aversion, multi-tasking, land price gradients, and fishing to extinction.
This book presents introductory economics (“principles”) material using standard mathematical tools, including calculus. It is designed for a relatively sophisticated undergraduate who has not taken a basic university course in economics. It also contains the standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that ought to be standard but is not. The book can easily serve as an intermediate microeconomics text. The focus of this book is on the conceptual tools and not on fluff. Most microeconomics texts are mostly fluff and the fluff market is exceedingly overserved by $100+ texts. In contrast, this book reflects the approach actually adopted by the majority of economists for understanding economic activity. There are lots of models and equations and no pictures of economists.