Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 338
EAN: 9780618761265
Edition: 7
ISBN: 0618761268
Label: South-Western College Pub
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2007-01-22
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
Studio: South-Western College Pub

The Seventh Edition of Microeconomics maintains the hallmarks of the Boyes/Melvin series--accessible writing, strong pedagogy, and integration of global economic issues--with the revision focused on faithfully representing the latest thinking of economists on important microeconomic and macroeconomic phenomena. The authors have improved the integration of their popular pedagogy, technology, and supplements for a complete program that clearly illustrates the connection between the study of economics and the world of business. The text has been thoroughly updated to include the economic effects of the war in Iraq, the devastation of New Orleans by the Gulf Coast Hurricanes, and China's emergence as an economic power.Microeconomics, 7/e, also provides in-depth coverage of one of today's most significant issues--globalization--and how it affects economic growth and poverty. The authors examine standards of living around the world, comparing the poverty of Sub-Saharan Africa to the wealth of industrial nations. Global Business Insight boxes illustrate economic concepts with examples from around the world; corresponding thumbnail maps provide a sense of economic geography and orient students visually. In addition, all available data up to 2005, and in many cases 2006, has been included.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good product, lousy packaging
Comment: Delivery time was exceptional, I needed this book for class and expected it would take a week or two to receive it. I had it in a matter of days, less than a week. The condition of the book would have been exceptional had it been packaged differently. It was shipped in a thermatically sealed plastic bag. The postal service did something that cut through the bag and into to book (looked like it had been cut with a utility knife). Damage was to the cover and through the first 20-25 pages. I was completely satisfied with everything except the method of packaging.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: less than I expected
Comment: For a little more money I would have received the whole student support package including the CD ROM, the book was in good shape but other sites include more infomation when you purchase.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: This isn't a text book, it's an indoctrination -- and full of mistakes too!
Comment: Even though I agree with many of the opinions that Boyes expresses in his book, I dare say that he does not know the difference between an opinion and a fact. Teaching this sort of thinking to our impressionable college students is dangerous at best and disastrous at worst. College is a place where kids are supposed to be taught how to think. Indoctrination of our youth is the worst kind of sin because we are condemning the next generation to a lifetime of limited thought and stagnation of progress.

There are many controversial topics in Economics. For most of them, Boyes only tells the student his own point of view. Nevermind the point of view of anyone else. This book even goes as far as including an EDITORIAL at the end of every chapter.

Also disturbing, this book is full of mistakes. Mathematical errors, incorrect data, etc. I found at least two mistakes in every chapter. Most mistakes were minor, and a few were major.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: My thoughts on Boyes/Melvin's Microeconomics, Fourth Edition
Comment: I am a student in college who has purchased and read Boyes/Melvin's Microeconmics, Fourth Edition. I regard the book to be of inferior quality and sloppy. Although I can understand the concepts coming from the text, the writing itself is inherently poor. There are many examples of the authors misusing words, mispelling words, and making the text generally more complicated than it needs to be. To professors looking for a microeconomics textbook, please look elsewhere, for I am not the only student who has encountered these problems at my school. Thankyou.

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