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Microeconomic Analysis

By: HR Varian
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
ISBN: 0393957357
ISBN-13: 9780393957358
Released: 22 Jun 1992
RRP: £36.99
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OK for intro - By: unique, 12 Nov 2006
This book is good as an intro to micro concepts.

It doesn't have hardly any mathematical solution, which is needed for final year study.

To my best knowledge there isn't any advanced micro text book, that combines both theory & maths together. You have to pick topics & work it out for yourself. Someone will end up writing a complete book one day.
The Best Graduate-leveled Microeconomics textbook - By: , 07 Mar 2001
I am rather surprised at such comment: "It amazes me how the author can put so little information into one book. If you want to see the core of modern Microeconomics you should buy Mas-Colell. Varian's book is simply outdated, & is not suitable for serious graduate programs any more."

As a professor teaching at University of California, I found Varian the best graduate-leveled microeconomic textbook I have ever read. The book is extremely concise, well-organized & hits the points directly. None of the other textbooks, up to this moment, can be compared with this one in writing style. It can also serve as a nice reference book in the long run.

Mas-Colell's textbook has very good explanation of game theory, but in terms of nice exposition of classical micro theory, Varian is definitely better.

The Best in the Market! - By: , 24 Sep 2000
This is the best in the market as: (1) It contains most important materials anout micro; (2) The author used very clear-cut & concise tone in explaining the economic rationale behind those theories; (3) The book does not have excessive math proofs; (4) The author's objective is understanding of economic rationale, not just math proofs.

Some may say this text's treatments is NOT serious enough. They are definitely wrong as those texts running pages & pages of math proofs does not mean it is serious, but TEDIOUS!

This title may be a bit out-dated but still a lot better than Mas-Colell which is alll about proofs, proofs & proofs followed by several sentences of explanation in each section.

Mas-Colell is much better - By: , 24 May 1999
It amazes me how the author can put so little information into one book. If you want to see the core of modern Microeconomics you should buy Mas-Colell. Varian's book is simply outdated, & is not suitable for serious graduate programs any more.
Tremendous! - By: , 18 Nov 1998
If you are hunting for a terrific graduate-level text in microeconomic theory, pick up Varian's 3rd Ed. Microeconomic Analysis. The book is rigorous, but not at alll overwhelming, & is replete with the kinds of exciting results that made you major in economics as an undergraduate. Moreover, the book is concise -- the author seems to recognize that taking a long time to explain relatively straightforward concepts is not a way to endear onesself to one's readers. (Unlike a certain very large & cumbersome graduate microeconomics textbooks that came out recently.)

I saw some comments about the book requiring topology. I beg to differ -- while the math requirements are nontrivial, they are not so severe as topology. Anyone with a good background in linear algebra & multivariate calculus will find the book approachable. A course in rigor & proof, such as "Foundations," might be useful, but one can pick up such details from Varian's text itself. Differential equations & Real Analysis help, but are by no means essential.

This is a terrific text for graduate & highly advanced undergraduate economics students. However, I suspect many graduate business students will find the mathematics unweildy & perhaps a bit unnecessary for their purposes.