Foundations of Microeconomics plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit (4th Edition)
Robin Badewas an undergraduate at the University of Queensland,  Australia, where she earned degrees in mathematics and economics. After  a spell teaching high school math and physics, she enrolled in the PhD  program at the Australian National University, from which she graduated  in 1970. She has held faculty appointments at the University of  Edinburgh in Scotland, at Bond University in Australia, and at the  Universities of Manitoba, Toronto, and Western Ontario in Canada. Her  research on international capital flows appeared in theInternational Economic Reviewand theEconomic Record.Robin first taught the principles of economics course in 1970 and has  taught it (alongside intermediate macroeconomics and international  trade and finance) most years since then. She developed many of the  ideas found in this text while conducting tutorials with her students  at the University of Western Ontario.Michael Parkinstudied economics in England and began his university teaching career  immediately after graduating with a BA from the University of  Leicester. He learned the subject on the job at the University of  Essex, England’s most exciting new university of the 9160s, and at the  age of 30 became one of the youngest full professors. He is a past  president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the  editorial boards of theAmerican Economic Reviewand theJournal of Monetary Economics.His  research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international  economics has resulted in more than 160 publications in journals and  edited volumes, including theAmerican Economic Review,theJournal of Political Economy,theReview of Economic Studies,theJournal of Monetary Economics,and theJournal of Money, Credit, and Banking.He is the author of the best-selling Addison-Wesley textbook, Economics.Robin and Michael are a wife-and-husband duo. Their most notable joint  research created the Bade-Parkin Index of central bank independence and  spawned a vast amount of research on that topic. They don’t claim  credit for the independence of the new European Central Bank, but its  constitution and the movement toward greater independence of central  banks around the world were aided by their pioneering work. They are  dedicated to the challenge of explaining economics ever more clearly to  an ever-growing body of students.