Microeconomic Analysis

by Hal R. Varian

Book Overview

Microeconomic Analysis has been a fixture of graduate programs in economics for fifteen years, providing unique authority, clarity, and breadth of coverage.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393952827
• ISBN13: 9780393952827
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This is the RIGHT textbook

The book reads like someone's perfect lecture notes would: concise without compromising on quality or content. If you want to learn doctoral-level economics, this is the right book to start with. (Or try Varian's Intermediate econ firt if you have little econ background)

Noone else describes economics so easy!

Thanks to Varian for this wonderful, easy to read book - he explains complex subjects with humor and in a clearness that can't be beaten.

Tremendous!

If you are hunting for a terrific graduate-level text in microeconomic theory, pick up Varian's 3rd Ed. Microeconomic Analysis. The book is rigorous, but not at all overwhelming, and is replete with the kinds of exciting results that made you major in economics as an undergraduate. Moreover, the book is concise -- the author seems to recognize that taking a long time to explain relatively straightforward concepts is not a way to endear onesself to one's readers. (Unlike a certain very large and cumbersome graduate microeconomics textbooks that came out recently.)I saw some comments about the book requiring topology. I beg to differ -- while the math requirements are nontrivial, they are not so severe as topology. Anyone with a good background in linear algebra and multivariate calculus will find the book approachable. A course in rigor and proof, such as "Foundations," might be useful, but one can pick up such details from Varian's text itself. Differential equations and Real Analysis help, but are by no means essential.This is a terrific text for graduate and highly advanced undergraduate economics students. However, I suspect many graduate business students will find the mathematics unweildy and perhaps a bit unnecessary for their purposes.

Probably one of the best

I am a student in economics. This book covers the essential of the principles of microeconomics. The best one I have ever read on the subject.

Direct, intellegent, and truely graduate level

This is probably hands down the most informative gradaute level text I have encountered in economics. Dr. Varian has managed to convey the basic graduate level concepts of microeconomics without excessive wording or digressions. Therefore, it is a valuable text and "handbook" and a must for any student considering microeconomics. However, for those without a strong math background, I recommend a few basic courses in calculus and mathematical economics before reading Microeconomic Analysis.