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Summary: A good book but needs improving
Review: A good textbook providing sufficient coverage of microeconomics with mathematical details. In this edition, it adds some matrix algebra as an extends. However, it seems to be inadequate. And I hope the future edition should includes more and more mathematical technique similar to the Eugene Silberberg's (The Structure of Economics).
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Summary: OUTSTANDINGLY STIMULANT FOR ECONOMICS STUDENTS!
Review: An outstanding textbook on economics, which stimulates beginners to enter this field in a manner that makes you like an explorer in a new and wonderful continent! This was the book that made Microeconomics my most exciting discipline in college!
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Summary: The best!
Review: At the first glance, this book is elegantly laidout, but mathematically "inadequate". However when you really read it, you find the author is a master in explaining very complicated concepts in an easy way. I am a PhD student, but I learned "economics" from this book. The textbook by Mas-Colell that our professor chose was a disaster. That book was heavy, stinky, and the authors did a bad job in explaining even the simplest ideas. I decided to use the Nicholson's book and understand everything and (only) this book made me love microeconomics.Lots of economists like to show off their math skills and like to show what a "rocket science" their field (economics) is by applying weird notations and "bad" English. Therefore, they intentionally make simple (maybe sometimes profound) ideas appear as complicate as they can be. Once you waste 1 day's time and undertsand the idea, you yell to yourself, "what a simple thing!". My experience is, spending 3 day's on Mas-Collel's book, I understand a thing, but it only requires 30 minutes if you use Nicholson's book. I was a physicist before persuing economics. In physics, we regard a good scholar (or someone who really understands what he is talking about) as someone who can explain difficult stuff in easy ways. Otherwise we dont think too much of him/her. In this sense, Nicholson (maybe Varian too) is truly a scientist, a great scholarly master. I am using these great terms because I am very grateful to the author since I truly learned stuff from it and it saved me from the great disappointment in microeconomics inflicted by Mas-Collel's book.
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Summary: The best!
Review: At the first glance, this book is elegantly laidout, but mathematically "inadequate". However when you really read it, you find the author is a master in explaining very complicated concepts in an easy way. I am a PhD student, but I learned "economics" from this book. The textbook by Mas-Colell that our professor chose was a disaster. That book was heavy, stinky, and the authors did a bad job in explaining even the simplest ideas. I decided to use the Nicholson's book and understand everything and (only) this book made me love microeconomics. Lots of economists like to show off their math skills and like to show what a "rocket science" their field (economics) is by applying weird notations and "bad" English. Therefore, they intentionally make simple (maybe sometimes profound) ideas appear as complicate as they can be. Once you waste 1 day's time and undertsand the idea, you yell to yourself, "what a simple thing!". My experience is, spending 3 day's on Mas-Collel's book, I understand a thing, but it only requires 30 minutes if you use Nicholson's book. I was a physicist before persuing economics. In physics, we regard a good scholar (or someone who really understands what he is talking about) as someone who can explain difficult stuff in easy ways. Otherwise we dont think too much of him/her. In this sense, Nicholson (maybe Varian too) is truly a scientist, a great scholarly master. I am using these great terms because I am very grateful to the author since I truly learned stuff from it and it saved me from the great disappointment in microeconomics inflicted by Mas-Collel's book.
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Summary: Paragon of academic excellence in microeconomics
Review: Nicholson delivers an mathematical tour de force to microeconomics. His quantitative formulas shed new light on the modern monopolies of our time.
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Summary: Great Textbook for Intermediate Economics
Review: One of the few textbooks I didn't return. This book is amazing for breaking down economic theories and providing excellent examples to some of the most challenging equations. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is having trouble grasping intermediate economic equations.
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Summary: good mathematical based view of microeconomics
Review: provides mathematical perspective of microeconomic theor
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Summary: Very good guidance to Microeconomic Principle
Review: Reading through this book, I could understand the mathematic tools of microeconomics. The explanation is so clear that the average students who studied the principle of economics can understand what the author tried to explain. Very nice book. I recommend this book to every student who wants to understand microeconomics by mathematic methods.
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Summary: A good introduction into microeconomic theory
Review: This book gives an overview of microeconomic theory. It also provides some mathematical background, which is not very extensive. The author takes his time in covering a subject, which can be a little irritating. This, however makes reading the book easier. The greatest flaw is the very small part of the book dedicated to game theory. This is a very important part of modern microeconomic theory, which in my opinion deserves a bigger coverage.
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Summary: an excellent intermediate book
Review: This is a very good book for someone that wants a thorough understanding of intermediate level micro. It presents economics at a level in between Hal Varian's Intermediate Micro, and the far more advanced book by Mas-Colell. It gives a clear introduction to economics using calculus and, unlike other books, Nicholson covers second derivate conditions. This provides additional inights that help understand the more technical Mas-Colell.
Also, the type set and fonts are eye-friendly, and Nicholson is a master at explaning economics in a way that helps you learn it. I recommend this book for the serious student who wants to get ready for graduate level microeconomics courses. By serious, I do not mean only students that are majoring in economics, but also any other student who really wants to learn microeconomics.
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