Economics

Economics

boring and difficult to understand...Mankiw does a better job

This book covers most of the stuff...but I would NOT recommend it...especially to beginners in Economics. The book starts with basic micro, then jumps to macro in like 5 or 6 chapters. I didn't even want to read this thing...it is horrendously written, the examples are not that clear, and overall I just did not like it. I have the 16th edition, so maybe they improved a bit in the 17th, but I doubt by much anyway. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND N. GREGORY MANKIW's book Principles of Economics, 4th Edition (Student Edition) I LOVE THAT BOOK, IT IS MORE ENJOYABLE TO READ THAN A NOVEL!! (I am not kidding either, I learned so much from that book, it was so clear, easy to read, and was also in depth)

Great!

Recieved the book as promised in the appropriate condition and was also shipped quickly too so I had it in time for my first class. VERY important! Thanks!

misssing book

never received book; and never received feedback on several attempts. I will not conduct transactions with dagamemania44 in the future

Economics 17th edition

I used this text in an Econ class last semester (my first in a few years) and this book was great. The summaries were helpful, there are several in each chapter instead of one at the end, that's very handy when you're looking for specific information. There are lots of charts to help with the formulas. My favorite areas included the chapters on Antitrust Policy and Regulation, Agriculture, Income Inequality, and the Costs of Production. Economics can be pretty dry subject matter, luckily I also had a lively instructor. Obviously as a student you don't get much say in which text you use, but this is a good one.

Generally awful, saved by summaries

If you have the misfortune of being assigned this book, I feel for you. The book is filled with needlessly complicated explanations, some of which don't contribute anything to the subject. The authors love to interrupt sentences with variables and equations that could have been saved for information boxes. The only thing that made this book tolerable is that figure captions and summaries were left to a competent editor. The book could be cut in half with a sufficiently critical editing pass. Don't buy this if your curriculum offers a choice of books. Edit: One thing to keep in mind while reading is that the text references graphs that appear 1-3 pages before or after the mention. When you come to a graph, keep a placemark on that page. Any text that references a graph is almost unintelligible without the graph, and that constitutes about 70% of each chapter.

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