Felix Muñoz-Garcia has done something rare: he has democratized access to advanced economic reasoning without dumbing it down. He respects that you can learn the math, but he refuses to let the math obscure the economics.
If you are a PhD student struggling to translate MWG’s dense theorems into economic stories, this book will save you weeks of frustration. If you are a master’s student who needs to use advanced micro (e.g., for IO, public economics, or development theory) without becoming a pure theorist, this is the best single-volume text I know.