RE the call for an alternative text... A crude draft of an alternative text can be found online at:
http://economics.csusb.edu/faculty/nilsson/nilsson.htm Click on "Course Webpages" and then on "Economics 200: Principles of Microeconomics." Warning: expect some incoherence in these chapters as much of the material is still in the first draft stage. Notable parts of this text are (1) the photograph of the corn economy on page 3 of chapter 1 and (2) chapter 13 which does stuff not done in standard texts relevant to why firms become large. Eric Nilsson Economics CSUSB
