Book Description

"Intermediate Microeconomics: Principles and Practices is a text/study guide aimed at the intermediate college student level. It emphasizes a problem solving approach intended to develop critical thinking and economic reasoning skills. The text takes a graphical and mathematical approach to understanding economic theory and applications of the theory. A mathematical appendix is included to help students review the needed mathematical tools of analysis. The author earned MA and PhD degrees in economics from Stanford University. He has had a varied career including stints as an economist at the Federal Reserve, as an investment banker and trader of derivatives, bonds and foreign exchange, as an investment strategist and as a lecturer in economics and finance at the University of Miami. He is married with three children and lives in the greater Miami area.