Microeconomics for the Critical Mind
Mainstream and Heterodox Analyses
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This textbook explains comprehensively and in rigorous detail not only mainstream microeconomics, but also why many economists are dissatisfied with major aspects of it, and the alternative that they are exploring in response: the Classical-Keynesian-Kaleckian approach. This advanced yet user-friendly book allows readers to grasp the standard theory of consumers, firms, imperfect competition, general equilibrium, uncertainty, games and asymmetric information. Furthermore, it examines the classical approaches to value and income distribution advocated by Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx, as well as Post-Keynesian pricing theory, and the microeconomics of variable capacity utilization. Using simple models, it highlights the analytical roots of the important differences between the marginal/neoclassical approach and the classical-Keynesian, critically examining the plausibility and reciprocal consistency of their assumptions.
The book also addresses various microeconomic issues not generally included in advanced microeconomics textbooks, including differential land rent, joint-production long-period pricing, capital theory from Walras to the Cambridge debates, the foundations of aggregate production functions, the microeconomics of labor markets, and the long-period theory of wages. Lastly, it presents a unique re-evaluation of welfare economics.
Intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate microeconomics courses, this textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the various approaches and different schools of thought currently competing in the context of economic theory. It can also be used in courses on value and distribution, heterodox economics, and the history of economic analysis. In the present situation, characterized by scientific uncertainty and the co-existence of competing approaches, it will stimulate students to form their own opinion as to which approach appears more promising from a scientific standpoint.
This textbook explains comprehensively and in rigorous detail not only mainstream microeconomics, but also why many economists are dissatisfied with major aspects of it, and the alternative that they are exploring in response: the Classical-Keynesian-Kaleckian approach. This advanced yet user-friendly book allows readers to grasp the standard theory of consumers, firms, imperfect competition, general equilibrium, uncertainty, games and asymmetric information. Furthermore, it examines the classical approaches to value and income distribution advocated by Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx, as well as Post-Keynesian pricing theory, and the microeconomics of variable capacity utilization. Using simple models, it highlights the analytical roots of the important differences between the marginal/neoclassical approach and the classical-Keynesian, critically examining the plausibility and reciprocal consistency of their assumptions.
The book also addresses various microeconomicissues not generally included in advanced microeconomics textbooks, including differential land rent, joint-production long-period pricing, capital theory from Walras to the Cambridge debates, the foundations of aggregate production functions, the microeconomics of labor markets, and the long-period theory of wages. Lastly, it presents a unique re-evaluation of welfare economics.
Intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate microeconomics courses, this textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the various approaches and different schools of thought currently competing in the context of economic theory. It can also be used in courses on value and distribution, heterodox economics, and the history of economic analysis. In the present situation, characterized by scientific uncertainty and the co-existence of competing approaches, it will stimulate students to form their own opinion as to which approach appears more promising from a scientific standpoint.
Offers a comprehensive overview of the status quo in microeconomic theory Introduces both mainstream and alternative classical-inspired economic approaches Discusses the reasons for the current discontent with neoclassical general equilibrium theory Presents a unique re-evaluation of welfare economics
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Fabio Petri
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advanced microeconomics Cambridge debates in capital theory theories of value and distribution classical versus neclassical economics critical microeconomics microeconomics of labour markets surplus approach versus marginal approach evolution of general equilibrium theory evolutionary economics heterodox economics Post-Keynesian economics Marxian and Sraffian economics classical economics of Smith, Ricardo and Marx Labour theory of value
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"Garegnani introduces the main part of the collection in terms of a densely written, highly informative resumé of its contents ... . The reader is given a summary account of his intellectual life and career that bears witness of the remarkable coherence of his numerous contributions. ... Garegnani’s work is still inspiring many economists. ... It deserves to be mentioned that Garegnani’s outstanding intellectual capabilities were also reckoned by leading neoclassical economists." (Heinz Kurz, Review of Political Economy, July 21, 2025)
“This is both an enormous book and a huge achievement by the Sienese economist Fabio Petri. … The volume is to be highly recommended both as a study book and a reference work to students and lecturers of economics and the history of economic analysis interested in the analytical cores of alternative theories – classical, Marxian, neoclassical, Keynesian and Kaleckian. … He is to be congratulated for a remarkable achievement.” (Heinz D. Kurz, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 29 (5), 2022)
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