http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 15:53:26 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 15:53:26 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=297997 This textbook presents introductory economics (״principles״) material using standard mathematical tools, including calculus. It is designed for a relatively sophisticated undergraduate who has not taken a basic university course in economics. It also contains the standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that ought to be standard but is not. The book can easily serve as an intermediate microeconomics text.The focus of this book is on the conceptual tools and not on fluff. Most microeconomics texts are mostly fluff and the fluff market is exceedingly over-served by $100+ texts. In contrast, this book reflects the approach actually adopted by the majority of economists for understanding economic activity. There are lots of models and equations and no pictures of economists.״The Open Source Introduction to Microeconomics״Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=342802 This course is a review of major topics of microeconomics. It deals primarily with the behavior of participants in various types of markets. Goals, attitudes and actions of users and providers of resources are studied. Emphasis is placed on potential harm of certain strategies and on corrective government policies. The concepts of the course are extended to the international trade and finance context. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=513225 This is a free, online textbook offered by Bookboon.com. "In this free textbook you can read about how to develop models that describes how an economy works. The book provides a comprehensive overview of all facets from Microeconomics. Starting with the market, consumers and producers followed by demand and production. You can also read about Monopoly, Price discrimination and Game theory.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=513228 This is a free, online textbook offered by Bookboon.com. "After reading the theory book about Microeconomics it is time to test your knowledge to make sure that you are well prepared for your exam. This free exercise book follows the same structure as the theory book about Microeconomics. Answer questions about for example consumer theory, demand, production and cost.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=562394 ״This is an introductory principles of economics course that covers topics in microeconomics. The breath of topical coverage limits the course objectives to subject matter mastery. The course will present factual material concerning the operation of the firm and household as well as the development of rudimentary understanding of economic decision-making.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=562396 ״The first publication of Ariel Rubinstein's lecture notes from the first part of his well-known course in microeconomic theory, which he has taught for fifteen years to first-year graduate students at Tel Aviv, Princeton, and New York universities. The book will be an invaluable supplement to primary textbooks in microeconomic theory. The book focuses on and provides a critical assessment of models of rational economic agents, and it contains a large number of original problems.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=562409 ״From the contents: Preliminaries on Modern Economics and Mathematics; Consumer Theory; Production Theory; Choice Under Uncertainty; Game Theory; Theory of the Market; Positive Theory of Equilibrium: Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability; Normative Theory of Equilibrium: Its Welfare Properties; Economic Core, Fair Allocations, and Social Choice Theory; General Equilibrium Under Uncertainty; Externalities; Public Goods; Principal-Agent Model: Hidden Information; Moral Hazard: The Basic Trade-Offs; General Mechanism Design.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=437980 ״In this free textbook you can read about how to develop models that describes how an economy works. The book provides a comprehensive overview of all facets from Microeconomics. Starting with the market, consumers and producers followed by demand and production. You can also read about Monopoly, Price discrimination and Game theory.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=562402 ״This book is intended for the students preparing for B.Com examination of Delhi University, although the book would also cater to the student of other universities. This book is an endeavour to provide a link between theoretical foundation and practical application.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=550068 This is a free textbook offered by Saylor Foundation.Russell Cooper and Andrew John have written an economics text aimed directly at students from its very inception. You’re thinking, “Yeah, sure. I’ve heard that before.”This textbook, Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises:• Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives.• Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem.Many books claim to present economics in a way that is digestible for students; Russell and Andrew have truly created one from scratch.This textbook will assist you in increasing students’ economic literacy both by developing their aptitude for economic thinking and by presenting key insights about economics that every educated individual should know. How?Russell and Andrew have done three things in this text to accomplish that goal:1. Applications Ahead of Theory: They present all the theory that is standard in Principles books. But by beginning with applications, students get to learn why this theory is needed. The authors take the kind of material that other authors put in “applications boxes” and place it at the heart of their book.Each chapter is built around a particular business or policy application, such as minimum wages, the stock exchange, and auctions. Why take this approach? Traditional courses focus too much on abstract theory relative to the interests and capabilities of the average undergraduate. Students are rarely engaged and the formal theory is never integrated into the way students think about economic issues. And traditional books are organized around theoretical constructs that mean nothing to students.The authors’ applications-first approach ensures that students will not see chapters with titles like “Cost Functions” or “Short-Run Fluctuations”. They introduce tools and ideas as and when they are needed. Each chapter is designed with two goals. First, the application upon which the chapter is built provides a “hook” that gets students’ attention. Second, the application is a suitable vehicle a vehicle for teaching the principles of economics.2. Learning through Repetition: Important tools appear over and over again, allowing students to learn from repetition and to see how one framework can be useful in many different contexts. Each piece of economic theory in this text is first introduced and explained in the context of a specific application. Most are re-used in other chapters, so students see them in action on multiple occasions. As students progress through the book, they accumulate a set of techniques and ideas. These are collected separately in a “toolkit” that provides students with an easy reference and also gives them a condensed summary of economic principles for examination preparation.3. A Student’s Table of Contents vs. An Instructor’s Table of Contents: There is no further proof that Russell and Andrew have created a book aimed specifically at educating students about economics than their two tables of contents. The Student’s Table of Contents speaks to students, piquing their interest to involve them in the economics, and a Instructor’s Table of Contents with the economics to better help you organize your teaching—and frankly, you don’t need to get excited by economics, you already are.