"would also be accessible and engaging to students. The more common approach in this market has been to emphasize one of these dimensions or the other. For example, some texts have done well by sacrificing rigor in the name of user-friendliness. But although such books sometimes keep students...

"My goal in writing Microeconomics and Behavior was to produce an intellectually challenging text that would also be accessible and engaging to students. Microeconomics and Behavior develops the core analytical tools with patience and attention to detail. At the same time, it embeds these tools...