Ebook: The Economics Anti-Textbook: a Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

Drawing on the work of leading economists, the Anti-Textbook lays bare the blind spots in the texts and their sins of omission and commission. It shows where hidden value judgements are made and when contrary evidence is ignored. It shows the claims made without any evidence and the alternative theories that aren't mentioned. It shows the importance of power, social context and legal framework. The Economics Anti-Textbook is the students' guide to decoding the textbooks and shows how real economics is much more interesting than most economists are willing to let on.;About the authors; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: our goals, audience and principal themes; 1 -- What is economics? Where you start influences where you go; 2 -- Introducing economic models; 3 -- How markets work (in an imaginary world); 4 -- People as consumers; 5 -- The firm; 6 -- Market structure and efficiency or why perfect competition isn't so perfect after all; 7 -- Externalities and the ubiquity of market failure; 8 -- The marginal productivity theory of income distribution or you're worth what you can get.