Product Description

McConnell and Brue�s Microeconomics: Principles, Problems, and Policies is the leading Principles of Economics textbook because it is innovative and teaches students in a clear, unbiased way. The 17th Edition builds upon the tradition of leadership by sticking to 3 main goals: help the beginning student master the principles essential for understanding the economizing problem, specific economic issues, and the policy alternatives; help the student understand and apply the economic perspective and reason accurately and objectively about economic matters; and promote a lasting student interest in economics and the economy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #188134 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Customer Reviews

I love this textbook!
Microeconomics by McConnell and Brue is a great text book. The explanation is very clear. I especially like the way they explain the graphs and concepts. It's very easy to understand. They give very good examples in each chapter. I use it for my class and I found the reading is very enjoyable. This textbook is definitely good for people who want to do self-study of microeconomics.

This is not the textbook.
We thought we had ordered the textbook, Microeconomics: Principles, Problems, and Policies by McConnell and Brue. This book however is Selected Material from Microeconomics. The Table of Contents is the same as the textbook, so this is really confusing. Be sure you get what you want.

Hate This Textbook
My biggest advice to all of you, find a class that uses a different textbook.

As an economic major student with an "A" in both micro and macro and compared to other econ textbooks I find this textbook a nightmare. The book isn't boring, I will give it that much. But it's extremely jumpy, it jumps around a lot from page to page and almost every time it talks about a graph, that specific graph would be several pages backwards or forward. Also the definitions that it gives you during the reading is a bit different in the glossary, so you have to play around with the words a lot until you actually get it. The homework questions are just stupid, it's so open to interpretation and so broad. It also lacks the mathematics of economics - it doesn't give a lot of examples with numbers. The book is heavily dependent on theories and it DOESN'T explain ALL the formulas that economists use. The author would also be explaining a subject and suddenly get carried away, then a few paragraphs later the author would back-track. There's also no coherent pattern that the textbook follows, it's just a bunch of information clumped up together and spread across hundreds of pages of paper.

It's not economics, it's voodoo economics.