Economics Questions

Re: Economics textbook

abskebabs — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:35:55 GMT

I assume you're not enquiring about Austrian textbooks(If you are, I'd still rate Rothbard's MES over Murphy's Lessons for the Young Economist, though it is rather deep).

With Neoclassical textbooks, I must admit I've grown to quite like Varian, and his Intermediate Micro textbook, though it is a little lacking mathematically, with myself often feeling that I should fill in the calculus in various steps to complete the derivation of what he's saying. He's a charming and often humorous writer though, even though I can see glaring errors with the theory he's espousing.

I haven't had the pleasure of reading David Friedman's Price Theory in full, though from what I've seen of it, I must admit it is quite polished.

Re: Economics textbook

Student — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:24:34 GMT

david friedman's price theory

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_ToC.html

best undergrad price theory textbook evar. plus it is free.

Re: Economics textbook

Zizzer — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:12:24 GMT

I'm reading Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt and it's pretty good so far.

Re: Economics textbook

Nielsio — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:03:49 GMT

http://www.vforvoluntary.com/young-economist/

Re: Economics textbook

Isaac "Izzy" Marmolejo — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:44:27 GMT

Lesson For the young economist is a good textbook for basic economics, maybe for high school econ... I would say Human Action is a good ''textbook"... or maybe Capitalism by George Reisman

Re: Economics textbook

Stephen Adkins — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:48:39 GMT

I've taken my standard business school econ classes and read their textbooks. And, in my own time, I've read Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State. To the extent the latter can be considered a textbook (I think it absolutely can), I would say I learned and retained much more from that book by myself, with no instruction, than from both of my university classes.

If I'm not mistaken, Rothbard designed the book to be useful either as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate economics courses, or as a holistic treatise designed for the intelligent layperson.

If you're interested in something a little more approachable, I've heard really good things about Robert Murphy's Lessons for the Young Economist

Economics textbook

Loppu — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:51:41 GMT

What is the best economics textbook in your opinion? Why?