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  <title><![CDATA[Principles of Microeconomics (4th edition)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Mankiw's Principles of Economics textbooks continue to be the most popular and widely used text in the economics classroom. PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS, 4th Edition features a strong revision of content in all 22 chapters while maintaining the clear and accessible writing style that is the hallmark of the highly respected author. The 4th edition also features an expanded instructor's resource package designed to assist instructors in course planning and classroom presentation and full integration of content with Aplia, the leading online Economics education program. In the 4th edition Greg Mankiw has created a full educational program for students and instructors -- Experience Mankiw 4th edition.  &quot;I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material that students should and do find interesting about the study of the economy.&quot; - N. Gregory Mankiw.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While Principles of Microeconomics is still as easy to read as Principles of Macroeconomics, there's a lot of copying and pasting from one book to another for the first eight chapters. This textbook also skims a lot of important topics and is very, very heavy on the laissez-faire free market belief ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57181124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>Very good college reference textbook<br/><br/>From<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cocomartini.com">UNIVERSITY Textbook</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cocomartini.com">COLLEGE Textbook</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cocomartini.com">ONLINE Bookstore</a><br/>:<br/>:<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great Book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lays on the laissez-faire free market stuff very very thick.  Mankiw makes some fairly basic fallacies of equation (e.g. his ideas on net job gains from breakdown of trade barriers fail to differentiate between types of jobs -- such as programming vs. Wal-Mart checkout clerk) but generally a decent ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1918658">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On the plus side this is a fairly well written and easy to understand textbook about a less than thrilling topic.  On the down side, the author was an economic adviser to George W. Bush.  This shows in his ardent belief of supply side economics and his cursory attention to equity.  The book's online...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36794391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wouldn't ordinarily put a textbook on here, but I've been using this one to teach myself, surprise surprise, the principles of microeconomics.  So far, I find it easy to grasp and strongly grounded in reality.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun times in Public Affairs!]]></body>
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