Teaching Microeconomics in Wonderland

Autor/inn/en	Pashigian, B. Peter; Self, James K.
Titel	Teaching Microeconomics in Wonderland
Quelle	In: Journal of Economic Education, 38 (2007) 1, S.44-57 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0485
Schlagwörter	Microeconomics; Textbooks; Textbook Content; Economics Education; Competition; Textbook Bias; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mikroökonomie; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Lehrbuchtext; Wirtschaftskunde; Wettkampf; Lehrbuchkritik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	Authors of intermediate microeconomics textbooks devote relatively more space to imperfectly competitive markets than can be justified by their relative occurrence in actual markets. This gap has persisted for at least 40 years, even with an almost complete turnover of authors between the decades of the 1960s and the 2000s. This portrayal gives students a distorted view of the presence of market imperfections throughout the economy. It appears that many authors have strong beliefs that noncompetitive behavior permeates most markets even though concentration statistics fail to support these views. Authors may overly stress noncompetitive industry analyses to enlarge their advocacy role in public policy discussions and analyses of firm behavior in antitrust cases and consulting. (Contains 5 tables and 17 endnotes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10