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Title: promising, but sliding into mediocrity
Review: 'Microeconomics and Behavior' is considered a good intermediate level microeconomics textbook where most other texts are too basic or too advanced. Unfortunately, buyers are better off buying the older 3rd edition. The new 4th edition is not noticeably improved on its predecessor. For some reason, the editors have decided to leave out all the appendices (which were in the 3rd edition) and have them posted on a web site. The appendices were useful mathematical extensions for more enthusiastic and able students. This slimming is claimed to be in the interests of creating a more 'focused' textbook, but it's sad to see yet another promising microeconomics text become added to the swelling ranks of mediocrity.
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