TY - BOOK AU - Hill,Rod AU - Myatt,Tony TI - The economics anti-textbook: a critical thinker's guide to microeconomics SN - 9781842779392 U1 - 330 23 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Zed Books KW - Microeconomics KW - Economics KW - Philosophy N1 - What is economics? Where you start influences where you go -- Introducing economic models -- How markets work (in an imaginary world) -- People as consumers -- The firm -- Market structure and efficiency or why perfect competition isn't so perfect after all -- Externalities and the ubiquity of market failure -- The marginal productivity theory of income distribution or you're worth what you can get. -- Government, taxation and the (re)distributionof income: is a just society just too expensive? -- Trade and globalization without the rose-tinted glasses ER -