''Microeconomic Theory'' by
Andreu Mas-Colell
Andreu Mas-Colell (; born 29 June 1944) is an economist, an expert in microeconomics and a prominent mathematical economist. He is the founder of the Barcelona School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu Fabra ...
,
Michael D. Whinston, and
Jerry R. Green is the standard US graduate level
microeconomics
Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and Theory of the firm, firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarcity, scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. M ...
textbook.
First published in 1995, the book consists of five parts: Part I: Individual Decision-Making; Part II: Game Theory; Part III: Market Equilibrium and Market Failure; Part IV: General Equilibrium; Part V: Welfare Economics and Incentives. The book provides a rigorous (mathematical) and lengthy (nearly 1000 pages) treatment of the standard microeconomic theorems and their proofs.
[El-Hodiri, M. (1996). eview of Microeconomic Theory, by A. Mas-Colell, M. D. Whinston, & J. R. Green Journal of Economics, 64(1), 108–113]
The book became ''the'' standard textbook soon after its 1995 publication. And, over 25 years later, it is still widely used.
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Editions
* Mas-Colell, Andreu. Michael D. Whinston and Jerry R. Green. (1995) ''Microeconomic Theory'', Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1995. 981
Publisher's page
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References
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Economics textbooks
1995 non-fiction books