目录(This is a revised version of the book, last updated
January 20th, 2010.)

Lecture 1. Preferences 1
Problem Set 1 10
Lecture 2. Utility 13
Problem Set 2 22
Lecture 3. Choice 25
Problem Set 3 45
Lecture 4. Consumer Preferences 49
Problem Set 4 62
Lecture 5. Demand: Consumer Choice 65
Problem Set 5 79
Lecture 6. Choice over Budget Sets and the Dual Consumer 81
Problem Set 6 88
Lecture 7. Production 91
Problem Set 7 98
Lecture 8. Expected Utility 101
Problem Set 8 112
Lecture 9. Risk Aversion 115
Problem Set 9 128
Lecture 10. Social Choice 131
Problem Set 10 139
Review Problems 141
References  156


少许前言:
This short book contains my lecture notes for the first quarter of a
microeconomics course for PhD or Master’s degree economics students.
The lecture notes were developed over a period of almost 15 years during
which I taught the course, or parts of it, at Tel Aviv, Princeton, and
New York universities.
I am publishing the lecture notes with some hesitation. Several superb
books are already on the shelves. I most admire Kreps (1990), which pioneered
the transformation of the game theoretic revolution in economic
theory from research papers into textbooks. His book covers the material
in depth and includes many ideas for future research. Mas-Colell,
Whinston, and Green (1995) continued this trend with a very comprehensive
and detailed textbook. There are three other books on my short
list: Bowles (2003), which brings economics back to its authentic, political
economics roots; Jehle and Reny (1997), with its very precise style;
and the classic Varian (1984). These five books constitute an impressive
collection of textbooks for the standard advanced microeconomics
course.
My book covers only the first quarter of the standard course. It does
not aim to compete with these books, but to supplement them. I had
it published only because I think that some of the didactic ideas in the
book might be beneficial to students and teachers, and it is to this end
that I insisted on retaining its lecture notes style.