Andrew Schotter is Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University. From 1983 to 1988 he was codirector of the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at New York University and had served as chair from 1988 to 1993 and from 1996 to 1999. Professor Schotter received his B.S. degree from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. His areas of special interest in teaching are microeconomic theory, game theory, and experimental economics. His areas of special interest in research are applications of game theory to economics, microeconomics, experimental economics, and theories of economic and social institutions. These interests are reflected in the many articles that Professor Schotter has contributed to economics journals and in the books he had written and edited. In addition to Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, he is the author of Free Market Economics: A Critical Appraisal and The Economic Theory of Social Institutions. He has edited Selected Economic Writings of Oskar Morgenstern and (with Steve Brams and Gerhard Schwodiauer) Applied Game Theory. Professor Schotter's wide-ranging professional activities have also included serving as a member of the editorial board of the American Economic Review and Experimental Economics and as an Associate Editor for Games and Economic Behavior, doing consulting work for businesses and financial institutions, giving testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress on the cost of the tort system, and serving as a visiting scholar at the University of Paris, the University of Venice, the Institution for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and the Russell Sage Foundation. In 1993 he was given the Kenan Enterprise Award for his contributions to the economic theory of free markets. Professor Schotter is married to Anne Howland Schotter, a Professor of English Literature at Wagner College in New York. They have two children, Geoffrey and Elizabeth, who have lent their names to the two archetypes of economic agents in the model society their father has created to illustrate microeconomic theory in this book. © Copyright 2000 Addison-Wesley, a division of Pearson Education, a Pearson plc company. All rights reserved. Legal disclaimer. E-mail webmaster@awl.com