The New World of Economics: A Remake of a Classic for New Generations of Economics Students (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783642273636)

Richard McKenzie is the Walter B. Gerken Professor of Economics and Management at the Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. He has written over thirty academic and general-audience books. He is also co-author with Dwight Lee of a widely used textbook, Microeconomics for MBAs: The Economic Way of Thinking for Managers. His book with Gordon Tullock, The New World of Economics, has been used over the years in most of the country's leading colleges and universities and has been translated into several languages. Professor McKenzie's most recent general-audience book is HEAVY! - The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free -- And the Home of the Fat.

Gordon Tullock is a University Professor (Emeritus) of Law and Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow at the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University. He is one of the founders of public choice economics and has done pioneering work in the political economy of rent seeking, as well as any number of economic subdisciplines that emerged during his long academic career. His book The Calculus of Consent, which he coauthored with James Buchanan, is a widely acknowledged classic in economics, first published a half-century ago.