I just ordered Intermediate Microeconomics. Better be good!
Vichy Army, so all those economics textbooks and all those academics are finding no relationship between game theroy and the “real world”?
Vichy Army, so all those economics textbooks and all those academics are finding no relationship between game theroy and the “real world”?
Um, 99% of economics you see in a University beyond intro micro is bogus and ridiculous nonsense.
It is good, I’m not sure you’ll find anything new in it, but in terms of explaining the intuition of microeconomics it’s unbeatable, forget Murphy, Varian is an absolute genius. It wasn’t the micro textbook used for my class, but I ended up using it for the entire course, I bought a bunch of other intermediate micro books on the cheap to see if they could help at all, but there wasn’t anything in those that wasn’t explained better and more succinctly by Varian. All of my teachers agreed, I’m interested in getting his advanced textbook and working through that before I apply for a masters.
In terms of macro, I’ve yet to find a decent textbook. Mankiw is decent enough at an intro level, but it’s far too repetitive for my liking, the same goes for Blanchard, I’ve looked at a few others that my professors recommended and the only one that stood out as being halfway decent was Carlin & Soskice.
It is the best mainstream intermediate text on the market. The only criticism I have is his failure to add a chapter on public choice, which should come right after the chapter on welfare economics (although to be fair, he does go over the Arrow Impossibility Theorem and a few other problems with welfare economics).
Oh come on! At most, 4/5 of it is nonsense.
Um, 99% of economics you see in a University beyond intro micro is bogus and ridiculous nonsense.
how much of it have you seen?
how much of it have you seen?
Keynesian and variants, NeoClassical standard, Chicago, Institutionalist, Supply-Sider and various Marxist kinds. They’re all predicated on absurd defintions; even when correct it’s really a matter of not following their alleged foundations.