isbn0130084611

Reader' Reviews

You might not need the newest edition / / 2010-05-15
I had a copy of this book which changed editions between my second and third year of university. I went to the library and compared the old and new editions, and out of the entire 600 pages, only SIX pages had new content. Three chapters had been re-ordered. The rest of the book was identical. If you don't need to buy it new, don't, and save the $100. Intermediate microeconomics doesn't change that much in 3 years.

Product note about the Kindle edition / / 2010-04-04
I was disappointed to find that this Kindle book is designed not to load onto Kindle for Mac. I feel ripped-off. Harvard is a university that extols the virtue of technology and modernization, and says that it believes in democratic principles, and yet one of its top professors has a book out priced to gouge ordinary folk by not working on one of the range of electronic devices that Amazon says are supported. Well done, Harvard, a superb example of elitism and greed. Harvard, having played a full role in creating the derivatives and financial catastrophes of recent years, has no sense of shame in arbitrarily restricting access to basic textbooks, it seems. It is pricing like this which makes it harder than one would like to condemn those who infringe copyright. When I find something other than my Mac and my broken (dead on arrival) Kindle DX on which to read Professor Mankiw's views on pricing and on fair contract terms, which I have no doubt are worth knowing, I shall be able to do so. If I run into him when I am next at Harvard I shall certainly expect him to buy me lunch. This is a simply outrageous pricing decision. I close this review with a suggestion to Harvard's economics faculty: discuss in class the business sense of charging a customer the full price for digital content and then not allowing the customer to use that content in the way advertised, and discuss in particular (a) the morality of this, (b) the incentive it sets ordinary folk for upholding existing copyright law, and (c) whether this kind of decision has been made by people who are living in modern America?

EPICTETUS

Good. / / 2010-02-23
Good shape, on-time. I wanted to return the book though (because I was no longer taking the class, not because the book was flawed) and the return process was kind of complicated. But certainly not a reason not to buy from this distributor.

terrible / / 2010-02-12
I ordered this book in the beginning of January. A month and a half later, I still do not have it. First, the shipped me the wrong book. I then shipped the book I received to the correct customer. Not only did I pay for this shipping charge and have yet to be reimbursed for it, I still have not recieved my book, which they guaranteed was shipped over a month ago. By the time I get the book, the class will be over and I will have no use for it. Definitely will not be purchasing from this distributor again.

Not the same as the International Version / / 2009-11-18
I want to warn anyone buying the international version that the problems are different from the US version.
Also, some of the notation is different (ex. rupees instead of dollars) and some of the examples are different.
If you don't have problems assigned from the book, the international version will work fine.
Many sellers claim that the editions are exactly the same, but they are not!