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Title: Microeconomics
ISBN: 007334365X
Author:
David Colander
Publicate Date: 2007-10-04
Publish: 2007-10-04
List Price: $84.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Lacks depth
This book may be an introduction to macroeconomics but it lacks the necessary depth needed to be considered a quality textbook for college students. It does not give the level of detail I have seen in other textbooks for introduction economics courses.
In addition, the author appears extremely bias in his description of various alternative views. This text is supposed to be geared for a principles in economics class and although alternative views should be discussed, the author spends too much time on these alternative views. Since the book is very short already, more time and attention should have been given to the basic principles of macroeconomics.
Overall, I am very disappointed with the text.
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2: Confusing Presentation of Material & Condescending Tone
I am very disappointed in this text. Am using it at a jr college for intro micro (also using same author for intro macro). The material is presented in a confusing way, often omitting important details, and I find the author's "conversational" tone to be condescending... especially when making references to "those of you who just don't get math" and similar phrases to the student...
I bought and use Mankiw's texts to quickly and accurately learn the material taught in both of my classes, and only refer to Colander's texts to ensure I'm studying the corresponding Mankiw chapters for upcoming exams. I'm easily achieving 100% on graded Aplia assignments and averaging 95% on all exams so far in both classes, thanks to Mankiw's clear, precise, and accurate texts. Meanwhile, my classmates who are using only Colander's texts are really struggling to learn the material needed to be successful in both classes (micro & macro).
I do not understand the popularity of this author - Mankiw's my author of choice to achieve an easy, excellent grade while actually learning the course material.
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3: Review of textbook
This book is probably the best econ. textbook that I have used so far. It is especially helpful for studying for the Micro & Macro AP exam combined with its workbook. Although he does try to use colloquial terms to describe basic economic theories I feel that this does not interfere with conveying the necessary information and may help some students with not as strong a understanding of the English language, learn from the book.
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4: This book is amazing!!!
This is the best Intro to Microeconomics book you can buy... hands-down!!!
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5: terrible book
I think this book is terrible - it seems to be full of inconsistencies to me. When I was preparing for my lectures I felt like rewriting this book completely, or rather writing my own principals of micro book. Robert Frank's book is so much better, even though some would say that is an intermediate micro book. I am just emerging from my PhD program and planning to teach - this book is used by our department and I wonder why they use it and how come this book survived 6 editions? I am sure there should be a better book among hundreds of titles I can see. I can't believe all principal micro books are so bad and I don't believe that making it simple means making it inconsistent!
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