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  • ISBN:
    0521899028
  • ISBN-13:
    9780521899024
  • PUB. DATE:
    June 2009
  • PUBLISHER:
    Cambridge University Press
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Intermediate Microeconomics with Microsoft Excel by Humberto Barreto

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Intermediate Microeconomics with Microsoft Excel

Product Details

  • Pub. Date: June 2009
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Sales Rank: 1,086,882

Synopsis

Intermediate Microeconomics with Microsoft Excel fully incorporates Microsoft Excel for the undergraduate intermediate microeconomics course. This unique text explains fundamental concepts in microeconomics, allowing students to acquire sophisticated Excel skills. The clear, simple writing and active learning features will appeal to modern practitioners and students.

Uses the economic approach throughout as the single central methodology, as well as concrete, numerical examples instead of abstract functions

Facilitates hands-on, active learning: instructors can display files, allowing students to work on them in the classroom or on their own

Features dynamic visualization using live graphs

Confronts mathematics head-on by using Excel to teach calculus

Presents two solutions to all problems using two systems: the numerical Excel approach and the more advanced calculus method

Provides files that can be easily modified and extended: the Comparative Statics Wizard add-in allows students to run their own analyses

Includes self-study questions combined with solutions that allow for learning during instructional hours as well as outside the classroom

The accompanying Web site may be found at depauw.edu/learn/microexcel.

Biography

Humberto Barreto is the Elizabeth P. Allen Distinguished University Professor at DePauw University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Barreto has lectured around the world on teaching economics with computer-based methods, including Spain, Brazil, Poland, India, Burma, Japan, and Taiwan, and spent one year as a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic. He has taught NSF Chautauqua short courses using simulation. He has received two teaching awards, the Indiana Sears Roebuck Teaching Award and the Wabash College McLain-McTurnan Arnold Award for Teaching Excellence. Professor Barreto's research focuses on the history of economic thought and improving the teaching of economics. His book, The Entrepreneur in Microeconomic Theory, was translated into Arabic in 1999. He is co-author with Frank Howland of an innovative text, Introductory Econometrics: Using Monte Carlo Simulation with Microsoft Excel®, published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press.