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Lind/14e is a perennial market best seller due to its comprehensive coverage of statistical concepts and methods delivered in a student friendly, step-by-step format. The text presents concepts clearly and succinctly with a conversational writing style. All statistical concepts are illustrated with solved applied examples immediately upon introduction. Self reviews and exercises for each section, and review sections for groups of chapters also support the student learning steps. Modern computing applications (Excel, Minitab, and MegaStat for Excel) are introduced, and the text maintains a focus on presenting statistics concepts as applied to business. The fourteenth edition continues as a 'students' text with increased emphasis on interpretation of data and results. ... Read more

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Stat Book
Book arrived promptly and in perfect condition, along with CD.Price was a quite high but less expensive than the university bookstore.

Statistical Techniques Book Review
This book was good as far as I could tell - I don't have anything to compare it to.

Disappointed
I ordered this new textbook in May.It arrived in time for me to begin classes, but the CD sleeve had been ripped from the pages of the book and had been discarded.The CD itself was loose within the pages of the book.It appeared to have scratches and smudges.I responded to the invitation from Amazon to send in a detailed review of the packaging, but I never received an answer.This is the first transaction I have had with Amazon that did not live up to their own promises.

good textbook
this was a textbook that for once was easy to go through with no tutors at your side or a study group to help explain the concepts. working through the book builds knowledge and understanding and makes it fun.

A good review of statistics in the business world
This textbook offers a study into statistics of the business world and the methods involved. ... Read more

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Distinguished economist Robert Frank uses hundreds of fascinating, unexpected examples of everyday paradoxes to explain the economics of the everyday world.

Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando?

For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic principles operate in the real world--which they do everywhere, all the time.

Once you learn to think like an economist, all kinds of puzzling observations start to make sense. Drive-up ATM keypads have Braille dots because it's cheaper to make the same machine for both drive-up and walk-up locations. Travelers from Kansas City to Orlando pay less because they are usually price-sensitive tourists with many choices of destination, whereas travelers originating from Orlando typically choose Kansas City for specific family or business reasons.

The Economic Naturalist employs basic economic principles to answer scores of intriguing questions from everyday life, and, along the way, introduces key ideas such as the cost-benefit principle, the "no cash on the table" principle, and the law of one price. This is as delightful and painless a way to learn fundamental economics as there is. ... Read more

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Economics for real dummies
Had I only read the customer reviews before ordering this book...

The book is lacks depth and is full of flaws, the most apalling being the paragraph on Hindu movies. This is equvalent to the assumption that Russians speak Orthodox, English speak Anglican, or the people in Israel speak Jewish.

In some way it reminds of Bill Bryson's books: wittily written, but scientifically useless.

Average read
I had high hopes for this book when I bought it, as I heard that it was being taught in a Georgetown graduate level economics class. I had taken some economics classes in college, but wanted a fun, refresher read that applied these concepts to everyday situations.

I found it to be quite mediocre, both in content and style. The questions he asks, mostly collected from his students, are ones that we encounter in everyday life and make us go "aha" or "I had been wondering about that". For example, "why do female models make more money than male models?" or "why are milk containers rectangular and soda cans round?". While the questions are fun, the answers, unfortunately, are too general and elementary for a book claiming to teach economic concepts. If you feel intimiated by 'economics' perhaps this book can be a quick, easy, approachable read by providing economic concepts in familiar terms. For anyone who is well read, has some basic economics ideas, and is looking for an intelligent, engaging read, you are likely to be a bit bored and disappointed.

Good place to start
this is a good book to get an introduction to economics. It is an easy read.

Good Premise but so-so execution
Mr. Frank has a great premise. Short, snappy answers to common conundrums of every day life without getting bogged down by pages of formulas and graphs. His strongest point throughout the book was emphasizing the narrative as a device for teaching and communicating. While his questions are interesting, I found several of his explanations lacking in credibility, especially in areas where I have some expertise. I wish he had covered fewer questions but in more detail. His use of cartoons as leavening was perfect and very well-done but maybe adding a chart or two to help us understand in more detail some of the concepts he was conveying might have increased the insight.

Overall, I'm glad I read the book but I felt it was an appetizer and not the main entrée I had hoped it would be.

Useful, common sense, economic lessons
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I assigned this book for the class that I am teaching in the fall at Berkeley. Although I had heard of it and know of Frank's work, I had not read it. Now that I have, I am glad that I chose this book for them.

Frank has been teaching introductory economics for many years, and over time he has put more emphasis on common sense and less emphasis on mathematics in his classes. He -- like Thomas Schelling (to whom the book is dedicated) -- is interested in "useful and believable" explanations for the behavior that we see around us.

Frank does not just put this ideal into practice in teaching and writing; he also encourages his students to step into the shoes of an economic naturalist -- by making part of their grade depend on a 500 word (2 page) essay answering an "interesting" question. (Nothing like grades to incentivize careful thought!)

This book is a collection of those essays, rewritten for consistency and clarity, and every page offers a new topic for thought, with a quick -- and generally believable -- explanation of the economics underlying the phenomenon of interest.

Thus, Frank (and his students) explain why taxi drivers quit early on rainy days (when they could make more money), why the rookie of the year often suffers the "sophomore slump," why Victoria's Secret debuts a new $500,000 jewel-encrusted bra each year that it never intends to sell, etc.

BOTTOM LINE: The 200 page book is easy to pick-up and start at any location, and anyone who masters its economics is likely to know more useful information that the average person with a PhD in economics. I give it four stars -- just so Frank has an incentive to work harder on his next book :) ... Read more

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The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or statistical models. It's about human beings and the choices they make in the real world.

This may be the most important book of its kind since Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. Though written for the beginner, it has been justly praised by scholars too, including Israel Kirzner, Walter Block, and Peter Boettke. ... Read more

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A very good introduction to Austrian economics
This book provides an introduction to Austrian economics which is sometimes funny to read.

The first parts lay the philosophical (logical) foundations of Austrian economics and build up a picture of the market economy. This is done by looking at a person living alone on an isolated island (like Robinson Crusoe). Later more people, goods, and money are introduced. In my opinion, this is one of the best explanations of Ricardo's "Law of Comparative Advantage" and the history of money.

According to Austrian economics, the market process does never establish a general equilibrium. Sure, there will sometimes be equilibria in distinct markets, but these cannot last for long. The price informs entrepreneurs of new profitable undertakings, thus destroying the equilibrium. New data will have the same effect. The price will cause entrepreneurs to gradually adjust to their customers' wishes. There is thus no need for a general equilibrium (nor does is actually exist) as in conventional economics for the market process to be beneficial. Unlimited information, perfect competition, and instantaneous action aren't necessary either. The market process consists of learning, discovering opportunities, and adapting to new information. Austrian microeconomics is much more realistic than neoclassical models. (You might guess from this that there are no figures of demand and supply curves within this book. Your guess is correct.)

Later parts introduce the government and show its role in manipulating prices and money, regulations, minimum wages, etc. Callahan's explanation of inflation and deflation is much better than in conventional economics textbooks. The market process will destroy monopolies, because their profits attract new competitors. Only monopolies privileged by the government will survive. Therefore, Austrian economics rejects antitrust laws.

The "Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle" states that recessions are caused by central banks via manipulation of interest rates. Artificially low interest rates cause entrepreneurs to think that there are a lot of savings which they can use for investments. Later on, the central bank detects an "overheating economy" and raises the interest rates, thereby initiating a recession during which unemployment is likely to occur. According to Austrian economics, all agents (consumers, capitalists, workers, and entrepreneurs) have a time preference which causes aggregate savings and investment to equal in the loan market. The resulting price for time is the interest rate. If the central bank alters the interest rate, the capital structure of the economy (consumption today versus future consumption via investment) is distorted and does not correspond to consumers' wishes any longer. The subsequent recession merely restores the normal structure of capital. Thus the problem is the artificial boom and not the inevitable bust following it. Callahan considers critics of the "Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle" and refuses them by pointing to their fallacies. In my opinion, the "Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle" seems to be correct. It is much better than the conventional theories we discussed at university.

I recommend this book to all readers interested in economics. It is especially illuminating for students of economics.

A great book that was pretty accessible
I liked this economics book. It was easy to understand for me, and it covered what seemed to be so much in a pretty short book. I feel like I know a lot more than most people about economics now that I've read this. :)

Perfect introduction to Austrian economics
The author writes in any engaging style and uses many of the same instructional models used in the "canon" of Austrian economics.The style is so snappy that it is easy to forget Mr. Callahan is covering a tremendous amount of tremendously important ideas.This is the first book I recommend to anyone who wants a quick and easy introduction to the Austrian school in particular, or economics in general.

Well Done!
I heard about Callahan's book on "Free Markets With Dr. Mike Beitler," a libertarian internet-radio show. I really enjoyed the book. It is easy to read and very insightful.

Read this along with Beitler's Rational Individualism: A Moral Argument for Limited Government & Capitalism. These books go together well.

A perfect INTRODUCTION
I would underline 'introduction' because it's what the book promises and exactly what it delivers. I found it to be a perfect and well needed base to grow my knowledge and curiosity from. That is NOT to say that the text is dumbed down or lacks extensiveness. It's simplified in parts precisely to strip a particular economic notion to it's core and explain it, before integration into broader context. ... Read more

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KEY BENEFIT: The Economics of Public Issues 16e is a collection of brief, relevant readings that spark independent thinking.
KEY TOPICS: The Foundations of Economic Analysis; Supply and Demand; Labor Markets; Market Structures; Political Economy; Property Rights and the Environment; Globalization and Economic Prosperity
MARKET: For readers interested in applying theoretical discussions to today’s important issues and gaining a deeper understanding of current economic policy concerns.

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Good Book
This book was really good in shape.It looked almost new.the only think I did not like was the shipment.It took about two almost three weeks to get to my door.I was needing it big time and it had still not arrived.I guess next time I will purchase my books earlier.

Learning to think like an economist
So much substance packed into this short space is admirable. All of the subjects brought up in this book go light years in helping the reader understand the economists side to the issues. Any student or citizen that reads this book even alone, will be leaps and bounds ahead of the average, indeed, even most elite intellectual voters.

like new
the book is kept in a very good condition, i think it's a new book

Economics of Public Issues [15th Edition]
A book which incorporates real life issues, values, and problems into economic terms. The authors chose subjects like ethanol, slavery and airplane safety and used these as a base to further explain how economics is used in our daily lives. An interesting book, one who hates the subject [economics] will be a little bit intrigued with a majority of the content. I, personally, hate economics but I found myself enjoying the book.

Great for a textbook
This book is by far the best textbook that I have had to read.The material is presented in real case studies so it reads more like a story than its more cut-and-dry counterparts. ... Read more

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A good primer on method and data collection
The most intriguing aspect of this well written book by two academic development economists is their discussion of the methods and materials they and other economists used in studying such issues as all pervasive corruption in Indonesia during the Suharto regime in Indonesia; how large scale smuggling from Hong Kong to Mainland China (entire container loads of goods falsely identified as holding similar but less taxed items) is done and why Botswana is the one of the few countries in sub-Sahara Africa to successfully deal with periodic drought, keeping it from impoverishing the rural population and freeing them from the "poverty trap" that characterizes so much of the rest of Africa.

Many will argue with their conclusions--for example the authors have a very different view of the result of corruption in Indonesia than does Ha-Joon Chang. Due most likely to a difference in approach, Fishman and Miguel look at it as an example of crony capitalism, showing how connections to Suharto were the most important factor in how the stock market valued on of the companies tied to him and his family. Chang's view is equally pragmatic but less moralizing. He compares the economic progress of Indonesia, one of the most populous and crowded countries on earth but one with significant natural resources, especially oil, with Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has untold mineral wealth.

Suharto and his family controlled important and lucrative contracts for emerging technologies, like wireless phones and cable TV, as well as licenses to drill for oil. But they kept the resulting profits within the country, essentially re-investing their corruption fueled profits back into the local economy. In Zaire, kleptocrat-in-chief Mobuto not only demanded huge payoffs for the right to do business in his country but then sent billions to overseas bank accounts, robbing his nation and his subjects of any return for their work and investment.

The authors are too easy on the activities of the World Bank--on of them was a staff economist there for several years, painting the supranational body as one committed to the best for its client nations in the developing world, an argument with which William Easterly (among others) might not agree. This book is a decent starting place for those interested in how development economics works, why it often fails and some of the pitfalls that are faced in implementing what should be beneficial programs.

Investigative economists on the trail of gangsters
Behavioural economists have been bringing us a lot of interesting books recently, and this book continues that trend. There are numerous reasons why poor countries are poor, and grand corruption is one of them. The authors see themselves as investigative economists, engaging in forensic analysis of statistical evidence to track economic gangsters.

The book explains how Tommy Suharto, the former Indonesian president's son, made his money, how lucrative smuggling between Hong Kong and China has been, how the mayor of Bogota used embarrassment as a tool against lawlessness, the relationship between a country's corruption and the failure of the country's diplomats to respect parking laws, the relationship between drought and war, economic contributing factors to violent crimes, and many other interesting puzzles.

As the first chapter explains, there is no singular explanation for why poor countries are poor. That does not stop the authors from offering their own idea for tackling at least one aspect of poverty: Rapid ConflictPrevention Support, in which foreign aid provides a form of insurance to African farmers against a sudden drop in income attributable to drought or other adverse circumstances. This idea seems to have some merit, and the book is definitely entertaining to read.

Clever at points, but not consistently valuable
I started off thinking that maybe this book's title should be Gather Ye Data Where Ye May. It starts with a couple neat chapters where the authors try to measure various hidden variables -- how much one company's fortunes depend on connections to a dictator, say, or how much gets smuggled into a particular country. You can get a reasonable measure of smuggling by counting exports from one country and imports into another. The authorities only tax you on the way in, not on the way out, so you have every incentive to lie on the import forms and tell the truth about your exports. If 10,000 BMWs leave Hong Kong destined for China, and only 9,000 arrive in China having been shipped from Hong Kong, you can guess that about 1,000 BMWs were smuggled out of Hong Kong into China. Perhaps they were creatively relabeled `Hyundai,' thereby carrying a much smaller tariff burden.

The authors dig a bit deeper into the numbers and point out a loophole that nations ought to fill if they want to modernize their system of duties: give similar products similar tariffs. One example here is amusing: a "boring/milling machine -- numerically controlled" used to get a 10% tariff on its way into China, whereas a "boring/milling machine -- other" got a 20% tariff. People have every incentive to claim that their boring/milling machine -- other is actually a boring/milling machine -- numerically controlled. The closer the products are in appearance, the easier it is for importers to pass off the one as the other and evade the higher tariff. (The authors give us a thought experiment, wherein chickens and turkeys come in for different tariffs. I only wish this were real. It would make me smile.)

Next the authors ask: is there any way to measure how corrupt a nation is? They find a smirk-worthy means of measurement: look at how often diplomats pay their parking tickets. Diplomats, you'll remember from the Lethal Weapon movies, can wave diplomatic immunity around anything and magically get off scot-free. This includes parking violations. So find some place where a large number of diplomats congregate and see whether they pay their tickets even though they don't have to. As it happens, the UN fits the bill: New York City keeps detailed records about which ambassadors received citations, which nations they represent, how much they were fined, and whether they paid the bill. From this, Fisman and Miguel get a rough measure of corruption, which they can try to connect to other measures like the World Bank's.

Don't think for a moment that I take this particularly seriously, by the way. The "parking metric" is a rough measure, at best, of what you'd do if you knew no one was looking. What's vexing, then, is that the authors seem to take it quite seriously indeed. 40% further on in the book, we see Fisman and Miguel writing about Africa's history of extractive industries feeding nothing back to their people, "To the extent that stealing parking spots in New York City really is correlated with stealing government funds, Chad is in for trouble." This example just doesn't do much at all of the heavy lifting that they expect it to. The authors seem surprised that other researchers could have accomplished much without parking data: "Even without hearing of the wanton parking habits of Chad's diplomats, donor organizations were fully aware of the endemic corruption in Chad's government ...".

So maybe, goes the implication, nations remain poor because their people are fundamentally corrupt. Or maybe not: the next chapter considers the possibility that domestic instability -- civil wars, particularly -- result from drought. That is: the rain stops falling, and the only available work is in a gang. Not a terribly controversial idea. The authors' approach is novel: send in the peacekeepers when drought makes war look likely. Get a rapid-response team to stop wars before they start. There are unexpected curiosities here: during droughts, there's more witch-burning, and the witches tend to be old women. The authors speculate that this might be the survival instinct disguised as superstition: old women consume more resources, so they have to be the first to go. The policy response they propose here is old-age pensions: turn the women into village assets, rather than liabilities.

We might label the connection among all of these "discovering the economic gangster in all of us": under what circumstances would we become corrupt or join a militia or burn a "witch"? How bad would the world around us have to get? And how do we use this knowledge of human self-interest to prevent disaster? Economic Gangsters is a slight introduction to these questions, and didn't really feel solid enough to justify the time. I suspect there's a better book on the same topic out there.

Interesting research but could use a more thorough treatment
I enjoyed this book and I think the research is compelling.Aside from a chapter in the middle of the book that veers inexplicably into Bush-bashing, Economic Gangsters is well written and very accessible.It is clearly written to introduce their ideas to readers who may have little or no experience with economics and there is little math or mathematical theory involved.I managed to breeze through it in about a week of before-bed reading.

Interesting but not sparkling...
[Originally published at my blog, [...]

I read this book recently. The authors (Ray Fisman and Ted Miguel) are development economists at big schools (Columbia and UC Berkeley; Ted's in the econ department, but I see him and his RAs all the time), and they've written this book to give laymen some insight into the research we (economists) do and how that research can be used to advance development around the world.

Ray and Ted have structured their book around academic papers that they and their colleagues have written, omitting the tedious math and econometrics and adding explanations, stories and context to the questions at hand.

Relative to an economic textbook, this book is much more accessible and intuitive; relative to other development books (Easterly's Elusive Quest for Growth, Scott's Seeing Like a State, and even Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hitman), this book is, uh, boring and overly didactic.

Yeah, sorry.*

Perhaps I am a jaded reader -- I've read about 2/3rds of the papers behind the book, and I've been "doing" development economics for 5-15 years (depending on who you ask) -- but the book only grabbed my interest a few times, e.g., the mayor of Bogota who used mimes to shame those breaking traffic laws. Put differently, I can think of better ways to spend your time.**

For those of you interested in the contents, here's a preview, chapter by chapter:

1) Economic development is impeded by corruption.
2) You can measure a company's political importance by watching its stock price when the corrupt dictator (Suharto in Indonesia) gets sick.***
3) You can detect corruption in the discrepancy between figures of the exporting country and importing country (e.g., Hong Kong to China). Distorted tariff and trade rules encourage corruption.
4) Some cultures are more corrupt than others. Ray and Ted discuss their brilliant paper, which showed that diplomats to the UN in NYC obeyed parking laws in rough proportion to their corruption at home (and attitudes towards the US) -- despite having the same immunity from prosecution. (I'm guessing that this paper was their book proposal.)
5) No water, no peace -- conflict rises when water supplies fall.**** Global warming will make this worse. Ray and Ted overlook an important problem in this chapter. They claim that the Rich world will not do too bad with climate change, but they forgot the adverse impact of a sick environment on quality of life.
6) When people are starving, they look for ways to reduce the demand for food. One way to do this is by finding and killing "witches". One way to stop the massacre of old women and children accused of witchcraft is to provide insurance against such risks, i.e., drought relief.
7) Countries can recover from war pretty quickly, but it's harder to recover from civil war or when ex-militants are left in unemployed groups. Vietnam succeeded; Iraq is failing.
8) Randomized trials (one village gets a new program, another "control" village is left alone) are a good way to evaluate anti-poverty programs.*****

Bottom Line: Anyone REALLY interested in development economics (but who is not an economist) should read this book. Everyone else should keep reading and debating at economics blogs :)

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* And who am I, a lowly postdoc without a book to his name, to question the output of two superstar professors? Just me, folks...

** Listen to this great podcast [...], in which Richard Epstein discusses inequality and happiness.

*** Read this paper [...] to really understand how a developing country moves from the "Natural State" to the "Open Access Order."

**** Check out the updated Environment and Security Water Conflict Chronology" [...] from Peter Gleick's Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security (yes, that's the full name). It's pretty exhaustive, but it's also pretty inclusive (it includes incidents when one person is attacked, "perhaps" over water...)


***** I'm still amazed that a PhD student (Ben Olken) was given [...] to study corruption in Indonesian road building. Holy Cow! That's enough to fund 200 "normal" PhD research projects! ... Read more

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Never got the book!
I wasn't able to track my book because there wasn't a tracking number provided. Amazon stated that some packages do not have a tracking#. I waited until a day after the delivery date to complain, (as I realize that this is a busy time of year for amazon and shipping companies) When at this time I was finally provided a tracking#. MIRACLE! Now that I had the tracking# I was able to find out that the delivery company attempted to deliver my package and left me a note (never got the note) stating that they attempted to deliver. I went over to the delivery service and they could not find my book, but they were for certain that it had not been returned to the shipper (per there computer). The same day that the delivery service told me this, I received an email from amazon stating that the book was returned. So now I've waited nearly 3 weeks for a book that I don't have, and behind in my class. If Amazon would have simply posted my tracking# as soon as possible I could have known what was going on. I'm also out the shipping charge that was charged to my cc. I will never attempt to order from amazon again!

Economics Today: The Macro View
The material is fine--what I'd expect from a college textbook. I'm dissatisfied with how long it took to receive the book. My course was well within the third week before I finally received it, and I ordered it before the first day of class.

Great condition book
The book I ordered came to my college about 4 days after I ordered it. It was in better condition than the "good" condition that was listed. Satisfied with this product.

1970 Datsun
One Heck Of A DULL Book! One Heck Of A GREAT PRICE! Lots Lots Better Than My School Bookstore.

great transaction
item was in great condition, exactly what i was looking for. shipping was fast. great transaction. thank you! ... Read more

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The ultimate resource for understanding and interpreting important economic figures

Economic indicators are increasingly complicated to compute and comprehend. Yet in today's challenging economic environment, economic indicators are also more important than ever. This highly accessible seventh edition of the Guide to Economic Indicators presents the complicated subject of economic indicators in a conversational tone, helping readers to quickly gain an understanding of economic indicators, including why they're important, how to interpret them, and their reliability in predicting future economic performance. The book

• Describes how economic indicators can be manipulated to demonstrate almost any business cycle
• Examines how GDP, invisible balances, the terms of trade, and unemployment are used to interpret economic data
• Includes over ninety tables and charts

Fully updated and revised, the Guide to Economic Indicators, 7th Edition is an invaluable resource for anyone searching for a clear explanation of the world's underlying economic realities. ... Read more

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Nice handy guide
I wish I would have had it during Macroeconomics class for a reference.

A reference guide
I expected a guide that would assist in determining where we were in the business cycle. This wasn't really it. The book is structured more like an encyclopedia - analyzing each indicator in detail and in isolation. A fine addition to anyone's economic reference books, but disappointed me by failing to treat the economy as an organic whole.

If only economics were that easy
True to the style of The Economist, this book makes everything seem easier than it really is. However, for people who spend too much time thinking about economic issues, this is actually rather refreshing, much like a cold beer after a long day's work.

Some examples: "In the long term, the growth in economic output depends on the number of people working and output per worker (productivity)" (Page 41); Or "In general, the more optimistic consumers are, the more likely they are to spend money. This boosts consumer spending and economic output" (Page 93)...

...One begins to yearn for the days where economics was more of an explanatory and less a mathematical science.

The guide is divided into a number of chapters discussing issues and examples related to
- How economic activity is calculated, and what the main indicators GDP/GNP/NNI capture and do not capture, as well as what changes in these indicators or their components mean.
- Employment indicators such as employment by sector or the unemployment rate
- Balance of payments and fiscal indicators, such as tax revenue or budget deficit
- Consumer indicators, such as disposable income or consumer confidence and their significance
- Investment and savings indicators, such as investment intentions or sales/inventory ratios
- Business indicators, including business conditions, auto sales, construction orders and other common stats
- Exchange rates and financial market indicators, such as interest rates and money supply.
- Prices and wages, like the effect of oil price changes, among others

Coverage of the most common and widely available indicators is fairly comprehensive. Given the simplicity of the book, it is better to have a certain level of economic knowledge and opinion to be able to put the content in context. Not much different to reading The Economist, really.

A good reference guide for understanding economic indicators
The book itself will be of great use for those analysts who evaluatecountry risk analysis. Economic indicators sometimes tend to behard tounderstand, but this guide makes them easy to comprehend and relate to eachother.

A good purchase
As the title says, this book can help you make sense of economic indicators.The more you know, the easier it is for you to understand the economical aspects of society, and this seemed to add a lot more to myknowledge, and it clarified other thoughts. ... Read more

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It has been twenty years since the last edition of this classic book. Kevin Wainwright (British Columbia University and Simon Fraser University), a long time user of the text, has executed the perfect revision: he has updated examples, applications and theory without changing the elegant, precise presentation style of Alpha Chiang. Readers will find the wait was worthwhile. ... Read more

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Math Sweet Math
A little too in depth I think for undergrad study. Perfect for grad students. Overall a great teaching tool.

Great book for Math Economics
Chiang has all the topics we need to know as Agricultural Economists. Each chapter makes an application in Macro or Microeconomics which revels the reason of learning heavy math.

Chiang Math for Econ
It is really helpful for the formation of a good mathematical background for Economics. It makes you familiar with the tools you encounter when you study Economics.

great for theory not for practice
Economists are under the delusion that economics is on par with physical sciences such as physics regarding "laws" and "facts". To keep this delusion up you are forced to learn advanced mathematics to be considered a "serious" economist. This is yet another book to sustain this delusion.

As Dr.Chiang himself puts it in the introduction, the purpose of mathematical economics as a subject is to aid theoretical and deductive reasoning, not empirical research and inductive reasoning. By this definition it builds on principles of logic instead of facts. It means that the mathematical methods used are chosen depending on whether or not they fit with economic theory (=economic logic). Since economic logic is based on politics, culture, religion and philosophy you can begin to understand my critique.

Although I am highly critical of the subject itself, there is no doubt in my mind that Chiang is both an excellent teacher and writer.If you are an economics student and completely new to calculus and linear algebra, then this book by Chiang is a very gentle introduction to this subject. There is more text in this book than mathematical formulae, making this the most humanistic book to learn basic mathematical economics from that I have come across. You could probably just read through the book if you wanted to and still get a good understanding of it all.

The first half of this book covers all the math you need to know as an undergraduate: matrix algebra, sets, differentiation, basic optimization etc. The remainder of the book covers more advanced and obscure stuff: sufficiency-theorems, Roy's Identity, improper integrals, the Cobweb model, the Samuelson Multiplier-Acceleration Interaction Model...

A positive externality you will be exposed to from this book is how to express your mathematics in a professional manner: you will learn how to understand and write the type of math you see in professional journals. This is important to know if you plan to continue with advanced theoretical studies, and is a detail that many math courses tend to ignore.

I never had any major problems understanding the concepts, my main difficulty was working out how to do the calculations on my Texas calculator and keeping the motivation up.

However if you are someone not enirely new to calculus or someone who just wants to get to the point as soon as possible, the abundance of text in this book will either bore or frustrate you - Chiang takes time to get to the point and all the text tends to blur things up. In this case Blume's book Mathematics for Economists or Dowling's book Schaum's OutlineIntroduction to Mathematical Economics are far superior. Chiang's book also does not feel as scientific as Blume's and Dowling's, it is much more casual. In addition Blume covers alot more advanced material than Chiang and the book by Dowling is much better for revision than Chiang, as the text in Chiang's book "get's in the way" when you just want to look something up.

Also, this book is mainly for those who plan to continue with a Masters degree in theoretical economics, particularly advanced microeconomics. Most of the stuff in this book has little practical use if you are not a theoretician. If you are going into applied research you are better-off using either Dowling's or Blume's book, and if your aim is to learn real mathematics I recommend "pure" mathematics books such as Apostol's Calculus, Vol. 1: One-Variable Calculus with an Introduction to Linear Algebra (Second Edition) (Volume 1), Calculus, Vol. 2: Multi-Variable Calculus and Linear Algebra with Applications, or Spivak's Calculus, 4th edition.

Finally, I think for practical business people wanting to learn some mathematical economics the following books are much better to use than Chiang: Bradley's Essential Mathematics for Economics and Business, and Jacques' Mathematics for Economics and Business (5th Edition).

In conclusion, if you are any sort of practical business person you are way of target with this book, this is a book for students who aim to one day write their own articles in journals, play around with their models, and take themselves too seriously. This book is not for practical business application - it is a tool for understanding and developing economic theory. Whether its a good tool or not is a matter of opinion.

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In this newly revised book, Harold L. Vogel examines the business economics of the major entertainment enterprises: movies, music, television programming, broadcasting, cable, casino gambling and wagering, publishing, performing arts, sports, theme parks, and toys and games. The seventh edition has been further revised and broadened and differs from its predecessors by restructuring and repositioning the previous Internet chapter, including new material on the economics of networks and advertising, adding a new section on policy implications, and further expanding the section on recent theoretical work pertaining to box-office behaviour. The result is a comprehensive up-to-date reference guide on the economics, financing, production, and marketing of entertainment in the United States and overseas. Investors, business executives, accountants, lawyers, arts administrators, and general readers will find that the book offers an invaluable guide to how entertainment industries operate. ... Read more

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excellent experience!
The book I received was an absolutely pristine condition and was delivered as quickly as could possibly be expected. Thank you.

Smart tutoring
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Excellent reference for understanding media business models
This book provides a thorough explanation of the business models of most of the media and entertainment industries - music, radio, TV, even casinos and theme parks. There is both a historical perspective and a presentation of the current state. Most of this information is not available in print or on the net elsewhere.

For example, there's a flowchart that explains royalties in the music industry that explained in one glance what would normally require personal discussions with five or ten people to uncover.

There is also information on valuation models and accounting treatments of the industries studied.

Some reviewers called this book dry - but I think the writing is compact,objective, and informative. Also, there are extensive footnotes and references to other sources.

Academic rigor, an analyst's objectivity and practicality, and an underlying enthusiasm for the subject - excellent.

No coverage of the live popular music concert industry
Mr. Vogel has created a readable and informative book.The introductory chapters are acomprehensive overview of economics, leisure time, and media, and may be worth the discounted price of the book on their own.

My complaint is that the section on The Music Industry is not up to date.It is a treatise on the Recorded Music industry only, and neglects the live music concert industry.

His coverage of live popular music entertainment is literally one paragraph.The live concert industry is now one of the main revenue sources for musical artists, in addition to licensing.The concert industry generates over $10 Billion in revenues from live music performance tickets alone. Live Nation and AEG Live dominate.Madonna signed with Live Nation and not a traditional record label because this is now the focal point of the music industry.Contrary to Mr. Vogel's outdated assertion, recorded music is now often a promotional tool used to get fans to buy concert tickets.This has been the case for nearly a decade.

Entertainment Industry Economics
A very clear explanation of the history, issues, rationale and economic flows of the entertainment industry. The book includes a comprehensive list of sources of information as well as details the sources for every bit of information it provides. This is very useful as it familiarizes the reader with the gathering of information in relation with the industry and the relative authority of the sources. ... Read more

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Not for Marxists . . .
... but a really enjoyable read for a former left winger like myself.After reading the one star reviews, I can imagine that this must be a painful read for collectivists of all stripes (but since I accepted personal liberty and laissez-faire free market principles, this book is a breath of fresh air).

A word of warning to liberals: Common sense practiced inside this volume!

Should be requires reading (listening) of every high school or college student.
This book is a reality check for those who do not get economics - I.e. Most of our politicians.It is too bad it is not required reading for every high school or college student.

Well-written, but not a textbook by a long shot
If you want to learn the basics of economics, then read some of the real textbooks, which passed thorough peer-review and which present balanced and reliable information. You can read summaries of chapters and sections of real academic textbooks, as they are written in lay language and will give you all the basics in under an hour. This book is mostly a libertarian manifesto and presents subjective views of the author. On the positve side, Dr. Sowell is an excellent writer and can explain complicated concepts in an easy and accessible language, without resorting to arcane academic terms.

A political text masquerading as an economics book
If you're looking to learn the basics of economics then do yourself a favor and search for a good Macroeconomics 101 textbook used to teach college students.Do not buy a basic economics book written by a political commentator because what you'll get is political ideology masquerading as basic economics.

Each chapter of "Basic Economics" begins as a basic intro into a topic (wages, investment, banking, trade) but then segues into a very specific discussion about one political issue or another meant to promote the author's political leanings.Here are a few examples:

"Chapter 17:The Role of Government" - Starts off innocently enough with a discussion of the role of government in providing basic services but by the end of the chapter Sowell has segued into how environmental regulations hurt the economy because the public can't understand the cost-benefit analysis of those regulations.Environmental laws meant to discourage pollution are dismissed as misguided government interference.

"Chapter 13:Risk and Insurance" - Starts off discussing the importance of risk transfer to the economy through insurance but soon degenerates into an attack on Social Security as a failed goverment program that is nothing more than a national Ponzi scheme.

"Chapter 10:Controlled Labor Markets" - This chapter starts off discussing the role of labor supply and demand but quickly turns into an anti-union lecture about how terrible organized labor is.

This is not an intro to economics book, it's a very thinly disguised political text written by a conservative political author who happens to have a degree in economics.

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The microfinance revolution has allowed more than 150 million poor people around the world to receive small loans without collateral, build up assets, and buy insurance. The idea that providing access to reliable and affordable financial services can have powerful economic and social effects has captured the imagination of policymakers, activists, bankers, and researchers around the world; the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize went to microfinance pioneer Muhammed Yunus and Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. This book offers an accessible and engaging analysis of the global expansion of financial markets in poor communities. It introduces readers to the key ideas driving microfinance, integrating theory with empirical data and addressing a range of issues, including savings and insurance, the role of women, impact measurement, and management incentives.

This second edition has been updated throughout to reflect the latest data. A new chapter on commercialization describes the rapid growth in investment in microfinance institutions and the tensions inherent in the efforts to meet both social and financial objectives. The chapters on credit contracts, savings and insurance, and gender have been expanded substantially; a new section in the chapter on impact measurement describes the growing importance of randomized controlled trials; and the chapter on managing microfinance offers a new perspective on governance issues in transforming institutions. Appendixes and problem sets cover technical material. ... Read more

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One of the world’s leading experts on economic education, William Walstad of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has prepared the seventeenth edition of the Study Guide.Many students find the Study Guide indispensable. Each chapter contains an introductory statement, a checklist of behavioral objectives, an outline, a list of important terms, fill-in questions, problems and projects, objective questions, and discussion questions. The answers to Economics’ end-of-chapter Key Questions appear at the end of the Study Guide, along with the text’s glossary.The Guide comprises a superb “portable tutor” for the principles student. Separate Study Guides are available for the macro and micro paperback editions of the text. ... Read more

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The Seventh edition of Urban Economics continues to be the market leading textbook due to its thorough content and concise writing style.The new edition continues to cover urban economics as the discipline that lies at the intersection of geography and economics.Urban Economics incorporates the remarkable progress in the field of urban economics from the last fifteen years.It also explores the location decisions of utility-maximizing households and profit-maximizing firms, and it shows how these decisions cause the formation of cities of different size and shape.

The framework of this edition continues to be divided into six sections:

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Great textbook
The class was very interesting, but more importantly, the book offered an updated view on local government, education, crime and other topics. Everything was pretty well put into perspective. It doesn't have a lot of drawingsl It does have a lot of graphs, but is what you expect from an economics book.

So cheap So exact same book as newer edition.
I must have majored in economics, since I found a way to minimize my input cost without diminishing returns. I will add that the newer editions have different (more) end of chapter questions. I managed an A with this book, but make sure your assignments aren't directly out of this sucker. Live long mono-centric city models, bid-rent curves, and good info about the ills of modern mass transit systems. I read from this book often to win arguments about city structuring. 60% of the time, it works every time.

Surprised.
I enrolled in an Urban Economics course as part of my minor. I really don't find the basics of economics too terribly thrilling, but I've really enjoyed the content. My professor follows the book closely and the text is surprisingly easy to read. :)

Brand new book w/ prompt delivery
STILL IN PACKAGE, book was in great shape, brand new, prompt delivery.

A very comprehensive overview
I had "Urban Economics" for one of my urban planning courses at graduate school.It was a pleasure to study the principles and processes of city building, growth and dynamics, through this book.Every chapter inthe book can be a title for a separate volume.So this is a verycomprehensive overall general view of economics as a determinant of urbandevelopment and form.

I particularly liked the chapters on UrbanPoverty and Housing.The chapter on poverty explains issues like incometransfers, food stamps and their effect on consumer behavior, problems ofinner cities and development policies needed to change that.

Housing hasa great chapter devoted to the peculiarities of housing as a commodity andthe effect of race and discrimination on housing patterns.The mostinteresting part concerns the "filtering" of housing from theupper income to lower income populations.

Also explained is the autooriented transportation vs mass transit and their specific roles in shapingcities.

Highly recommended.Easy to read and understand. ... Read more

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The classic introduction to economic thought, now updated in time for the publication of New Ideas from Dead CEOs

This entertaining and accessible introduction to the great economic thinkers throughout history— Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and more—shows how their ideas still apply to our modern world. In this revised edition, renowned economist Todd Buchholz offers an insightful and informed perspective on key economic issues in the new millennium: increasing demand for energy, the rise of China, international trade, aging populations, health care, and the effects of global warming. New Ideas from Dead Economists is a fascinating guide to understanding both the evolution of economic theory and our complex contemporary economy.Amazon.com Review
Over 150 years ago, Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle dubbedeconomics the "dismal science." But it certainly doesn't seem that wayin the skillful hands of Todd G. Buchholz, author of New Ideas fromDead Economists. In this revised edition of a book first publishedin 1989, economics is accessible, relevant, and fascinating. It's evenfun--for example, when he uses the cast of Gilligan's Islandand Henny Youngman jokes to explain complex economic theories. "Whynot have the last laugh on Carlyle by using the dead economiststhemselves to reverse their bad reputations and to teach the lessonsthey left to us?"

Buchholz surveys and critiques economic thought from Adam Smith'sinvisible hand of the 18th century to the depression-fighting ideas ofthe Keynesians and money-supply concepts of the 20th-centurymonetarists. He also relates classic economic principles to suchmodern-day events as the fall of communism, the Asian financialmeltdown, and global warming. Buchholz includes plenty of anecdotesabout the lives of the great economists: Karl Marx, for instance, wasan unkempt slob; David Ricardo, the early-19th-century Englishpolitician and economist, was among the rare economists to get richtrading stocks; and Maynard Keynes was so homely his friends calledhim "Snout." Here's a lively and authoritative read for thoseinterested in the past, present, and future of economics. --DanRing ... Read more

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Great overview of many different schools of Economic thought
Todd Buchholz brings together a wonderful and well written overview of many different schools of economic thought. This book neatly discusses, summarizes, and brings up criticisms and problems in economics from the days of Adam Smith, to our most recent 'Rational Expectations' school. Each section is divided up into 20 to 30 odd-some pages so that the reader will not be too engrossed in one partiular school of thought, and will be able to easily transition from one school to the next and for the most part, he works in a chronological order. You will learn about the most famous economists Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, as well as Milton Friedman and some of the lesser known economists, whose theories are the foundation of both micro and macroeconomics. Well written and worth the read!

As enjoyable as economics can be
I bought this book because I like to consider myself a well-informed person, and enjoy finance/economics/business, but never knew what people were talking about when they referred to "Keynesian economics" or "Adam Smith's invisible hand".This book is exactly what it claims to be- a solid introduction to modern economic thought.It covers all the great economists, a brief summary of their life, and an explanation of what they added to economic theory.The author is clearly biased, but how could you not be clearly biased against Marx?His writing makes a somewhat tedious topic entertaining- I literally laughed out loud a number of times.I would highly recommend this book to anyone with the same goal as me- a quick catch-up on what's been going on in economics in the past few hundred years, to understand the topic a little better and have intelligent conversations about it.There are definitely no detailed descriptions of theories or in-depth personal analyses of the men themselves- it is a beginners book that makes the topic entertaining and gives you just enough information to understand what people are talking about when economics comes up, and maybe even contribute your own opinions.

Great Intro to the History of Economic Thought for Beginners
Other texts are more technical and exhaustive, but this book is written for the layperson and is *almost* a primer for economics itself, seen through the passage of history.It begins with Smith, devotes chapters to Malthus, Ricardo, Marx, Veblen, Marshall, Mill, Keynes, Friedman, Public Choice, Rational Expectations, etc.The descriptions of how prices coordinate activity and of comparative and absolute advantage is about as good as any, and clear enough for anybody to understand.

This is a great book to use as a jumping off point for studying more of the economists, schools of thoughts, and concepts mentioned.A great companion book to Naked Economics, Basic Economics (Sowell), or Economics in One Lesson.

For a far more accurate (and far more in-depth and less beginner-friendly) treatment of Marx, see Sowell's book on Marxism, the chapter here repeats a few well-worn misconceptions about Marxian economics.

Brilliant survey of the history of economics
I am constantly amazed how little economists know about the history of their profession. They have heard (at best) of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, J.M Keynes. This survey will add to the reader's store of knowledge of an additional ten seminal thinkers.

This book started off slow, but the end was great
1. There was a bit too much detail about the subjects' private lives-- however this information was somewhat useful in getting an idea of the context from which the ideas came. So.....Keynes (the aesthete) seemed to be some sort of reaction against the Victorian background from which he had come.

2. The Public Choice policy discussion was, by far, the best part of the book. The thoughts that were expressed in this chapter are ideas that I have encountered in many other contexts-- but these were a wonderful, concise exposition to the ideas and their founding fathers (Mancur Olson). There was also wonderful discussion of what they did explain and what they did not.

3. Monetary and Fiscal policy were also great. A lot of people know those words, but don't know the profound differences in the ideas that anchor these concepts ("fiscal stimulus"/"Monetary stimulus"). I counted in these people before reading this elucidating book but can at least talk conversationally about it.

4. Because this book deals with the basic schools of thought in different parts of Economics, it can give you specific places to start looking in the search for deeper information. It can also clarify the most fundamental differences between differing schools of thought.

5. On the down side, the book is not all that light to read. Most books this length I could take in about 2 afternoons of reading. But this one is of such a depth that I could read (and absorb) no more than one chapter per day.

6. There were also a few problems with the author's attempts at drollery. He could have left them out and the book would not have been diminished in any way.

Other than that, this is a great book and well worth the (new) purchase price. I have a feeling that it is something to which I'll return time and time again. ... Read more

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Brand new and Well packed
The book was delivered so quick. And it was packed very well. The seller was really professional.

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Easy to understand topics that were not covered by the professor. I would recommend this book. ... Read more

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New 2008 edition of the classic book that has taught many millions sound economic thinking. It is a hardbound volume, and now available for anyone who needs to understand what economics implies for the society, government, and civilization.

Hazlitt wrote this book following his stint at the New York Times as an editorialist. His hope was to reduce the whole teaching of economics to a few principles and explain them in ways that people would never forget. It worked. He relied on some stories by Bastiat and his own impeccable capacity for logical thinking and crystal-clear prose.

He was writing under the influence of Mises himself, of course, but he brought his own special gifts to the project. As just one example, this is the book that made the idea of the "broken window fallacy" so famous.

New edition is beautiful, it is hardcover, and it is newly typeset for modern readers. It has a full index. It includes a wonderful foreword by Walter Block. It's the right size, shape, and feel - perfect for making this book central to all educational efforts of the future.

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Never more needed than today
Sure, a few of the specific examples cited 60+ years ago are no longer relevant today, but the basic lessons are absolutely and permanently valid and need more than ever to be understood by at least a majority of the voting public.

The sad fact is that Americans can go through the entire public school system and "higher education" without learning the first thing about economic science (while getting bombarded with self-serving economic propaganda).Thus public gullibility to the fallacies cited by Hazlitt seems no less pervasive now than back then, while the resultant cancerous growth of government economic meddling has only increased.

Here's a revolutionary fantasy:Make this book a required study by all high school students.Imagine what that would do for the kinds of politicians who get elected in the future.

BTW, you can get the nice hard-cover edition at less cost directly from the Mises Institute.

A must read for all- should be a school requirement
This is an excellent book that refutes so many misconstrued theories that are floating out there.I wish they required all highschool students to read this as this one book would serve them many times better than disecting a frog.Once you read this you will never look at the world and hear a news report on the economy the same.

Easy to understand
A book that explains free market economics the way it should be.It is easy to read and understand, which makes it a great economics book for beginners.Every high school student should read it before they graduate.

Economics
I have read multible books about economics and this one is the best by far.It brings home the common sense of economics.I would like to see this book made part of every high school curriculum andIt would be a great gift to our congressman and our president.

Economics for the Beginner
With the turbulent market and government intervention it was nice to read something that explains economics in understandable language. Written over a half century ago, this book should have been read by people in control of our financial system and maybe we wouldn't be in the shape we are in. ... Read more

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All you need to study and prepare for the AP Economics exams is in this test-prep book— Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams, 2010 Edition includes:

•2 full-length AP Economics practice tests with detailed explanations
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not very helpfull
I would say that its a great book to have only if you want to try out the practice tests, but not if you need a compact review of the information you need to study. ... Read more

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Books in Barron's "Business Review Series" are intended mainly for classroom use. They make excellent supplements to main texts when included in college-level business courses. In adult education and business brush-up programs they can serve as main textbooks. All titles in this series include review questions with answers. This expanded, updated text explains plotting and understanding economic graphs, market equilibrium and the nature of the price system, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and the dynamics of international trade. ... Read more

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Economics
this book breaks down the priciple charts and concepts and explains economics in a way that anyone could understand it. I'll be getting the other books in this series by this publisher because of the quality of this text.

Excellent Desk Reference
If you are looking for an excellent supplement to required college texts, Barron's Economics is a reference that belongs in any student's library. It is well-organized, succinct, and contains well-written chapters that provide both an overview and review questions to ensure the user understands the concepts.

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the book is is in excellent condition.

Good Referece
This is a good reference book.The best part is that it is not intended to be a text book.It gives you just what you may need and is well organized.

Barron's Economics
Barron's Economics provides a thorough overview of basic economic topics.It is easy to read and well organized. ... Read more