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Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the emergence and evolution of microeconomics in both its historical and interdisciplinary context. From the culmination of 40 years of teaching, research and policy advice on political economy, Ben Fine critically exposes the methodological and conceptual content of dominant microeconomic models without sacrificing the technical detail required for those completing a first degree in economics or entering postgraduate study. The result is a book which is sure to establish a strong presence on undergraduate reading lists and in comparative literature on the subject.
About the author
Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of the critical texts, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics (Pluto, 2016), co-author of Marx's 'Capital' (Pluto, 2016) and co-editor of Beyond the Developmental State (Pluto, 2013). He was awarded both the Deutscher and Myrdal Prizes in 2009.
Ben Fine is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Visiting Professor, Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has published over thirty books (one of which won the Deutscher Prize and another the Myrdal Prize) and three hundred articles. He is the founding Chair of IIPPE (the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy) and has acted as economic advisor to many organisations. He is an acknowledged international authority across fields such as Marxist political economy, history of economic thought, heterodox economics, economics imperialism, social capital, social choice theory, development economics and studies, the British economy and coal industry, consumption studies and South Africa.
Summary
A clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective.
