Microeconomics For Dummies, U.S. Edition

I’m struggling through my economics class and this book is extremely helpful. I needed something to dumb it down for me.

Simplified version of a subject I had some trouble with in college. Came wrapped carefully and undamaged.

Well written, a few funky calculus equations that could have been simplified, but the topic was incredibly boring compared to Macroeconomics.....

I’m taking college level microeconomics. I thought this would help. The book explains subjects through monopolies and oligopolies which is kind of confusing. Only some of the book is helpful for me.

I bought it for my daughter who is using it as complementary for her college course--and I decided to read it so I could answer any questions that she might reasonably expect ME to know after all these years. It worked! Nice summary--if I were teaching the course, I would use this as text rather than the ponderous (and overly detailed) one that is being used.

Perfect. Just what I needed to bring my F up to an A allowing me to stay in highest honors. I couldn't thank you enough.

my son used it a lot

This is the fifth Dummies book that I have read, and it is so far the worst one. It has the tendency to over explain simple concepts and under explain complex ones. I understand that microeconomics is an abstract science, however they consistently fail to provide reasonable examples to fundamental concepts. The first section on marginal utility and indifference curves is a mess. The next section is a little better but still unnecessarily confusing. There are four pages talking about how average cost rises after a certain point but they wait until the fifth page of the section to introduce diminishing returns of labor in a fix space which causes the rise in the average cost and average variable cost. I was an instructor for ten years, you don't lecture on and on about effects without simultaneously explaining their causes.