Esta nueva edición de Análisis microeconómico es una profunda revisión de uno de los textos más utilizados en la enseñanza de los cursos avanzados de microeconomía.Una buena parte del libro es completamente nueva, actualizando el contenido y haciendo la exposición menos concisa, con lo que se facilita la lectura. Se incorporan, por ejemplo, los grandes avances ocurridos en los últimos años en la teoría de la organización industrial, y se añaden capítulos sobre teoría de juegos, mercados de activos y economía de la información.Los capítulos de esta nueva edición tienen, en su mayoría, el mismo título que los capítulos correspondientes del libro Microeconomía intermedia, del mismo autor, lo que facilita al estudiante el uso del libro más elemental para repasar los temas estudiados. También es útil para lo contrario: para que un estudiante del libro elemental tenga donde acudir para profundizar más en un área.

Ten years ago, most scholars and students relied on bulky card catalogs, printed bibliographic indices, and hardcopy books and journals. Today, much content is available electronically or online. This book examines the history of one of the first, and most successful, digital resources for scholarly communication, JSTOR. Beginning as a grant-funded project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the University of Michigan, JSTOR has grown to become a major archive of the backfiles of academic journals, and its own nonprofit organization.

Roger Schonfeld begins this history by looking at JSTOR's original mission of saving storage space and thereby storage costs, a mission that expanded immediately to improving access to the literature. What role did the University play? Could JSTOR have been built without the active involvement of a foundation? Why was it seen as necessary to "spin off" the project? This case study proceeds as an organizational history of the birth and maturation of this nonprofit, which had to emerge from the original university partnership to carve its own identity. How did the grant project evolve into a successful marketplace enterprise? How was JSTOR able to serve its twofold mission of archiving its journals while also providing access to them? What has accounted for its growth? Finally, Schonfeld considers implications of the economic and organizational aspects of archiving as well as the system-wide savings that JSTOR ensures by broadly distributing costs.