Clarity has its price: Verbosity
Is it: a)wordy, b)understandable, c)good in explaining concepts? All three, interestingly. I've seen better (Mankiw) AND worse (the name slips my mind, but it was from a professor in Iowa) microeconomics texts. The main problem is that in striving to explain the concept (which the author does very well), he really beats it in. But if you miss lectures (or have a new prof who teaches from the book, as was my case), then you should do no wrong with this book.
A good tool for good teachers.
Economics is simple. This book teaches economics by emphasizing its simplicity. By including/excluding certain sections, it can indeed be used for high school students up to some (non-economics) graduate school classes. I have taught microeconomics to undergraduates for years and this is the most effective book at teaching students from a wide variety of backgrounds (meaning majors and non-majors). Students with a strong quantitative background or those wanting to learn about economics more in depth should probably buy something else.
Too wordy for what the book is trying to teach.
The books is too wordy for the simple economics it is trying to teach and it lacks direction in some subjects. It also missed essential concepts like kinked demand theory, and the Chamberlain Model.
Microeconomics--for dummies
This was supposed to be economics for high school and/or university students? Is was too simplistic for a 10-year old. The examples that were used were very common sense. Like, a firm wants to maximize profits...or everyone is different. Complete waste of time.
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