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THE MICRO ECONOMY TODAY, FIFTEENTH EDITION

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Names: Schiller, Bradley R., 1943- author. Gebhardt, Karen, author.

Title: The micro economy today / Bradley R. Schiller, American University, emeritus, with Karen Gebhardt, Colorado State University.

Description: Fifteenth Edition. Dubuque : McGraw-Hill Education, [2019]

Revised edition of the authors The micro economy today, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2017048456 ISBN 9781260105322 (alk. paper) ISBN 1260105326 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Microeconomics.

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