Essential Microeconomics: Principles, Cases, Problems

Brief in format, accessible in style, Essential Microeconomics presents the basic principles of economics and brings them to life in real-world case chapters.

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Brief in format, accessible in style, Essential Microeconomics presents the basic principles of economics and brings them to life in real-world case chapters.

The late Edwin Mansfield was for many years a distinguished professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He was an internationally recognized expert in the economics of technology and industrial organization. His numerous texts, all published by W.W. Norton, have sold millions of copies around the world. In 1979, when Sino-American scientific agreements were finally reached, Mansfield was the first American economist to lecture in the People's Republic of China.