Michael,
I asked a publisher's rep exactly your point that students might prefer
the full textbook at a higher price in order re-sell after the
semester. The answer that came back is that more students are risk
adverse and prefer less expense now. I don't know what is true but this
is what I was told.
Jim,
Thanks a lot for the lead to
Goodwin, Nelson & Harris (M.E. Sharpe)
for intro Macro. I used Harris in my environmental economics course and that is
an additional recommendation to me for this book. I've ordered it and hadn't
know of it. It looks promising.
Paul
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On 10/30/2012 3:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Message: 8 Date: 30 Oct 2012 11:24:30 -0400 From: "Michael Nuwer"
<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Textbook for Macroeconomics
To: "Progressive Economics" <[email protected]> Message-ID:
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charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 10/30/2012 9:13 AM, Paul Zarembka
wrote:
>
>.... These days
>publishers allow an instructor to cut chapters and costs to students of
>a textbook, so a compromise might be substantial cutting and serious use
>of the press.
>
I think this is a scam by the publishers. The cost to students is lower
compared to new copies of the book, BUT students cannot resell these
editions. Even local bookstores where the instructor re-uses it will not
re-buy the book. The publishers offer these "custom" books as a way
minimize sales of used copies. I say don't use them.
Buying used copies (often previous editions are fine for undergrads) and
reselling them after the class is still the lowest cost for the student.
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:41:54 -0700
From: Jim Devine<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Textbook for Macroeconomics
To: Progressive Economics<[email protected]>
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There are also "free" textbooks on line. I don't use them, but if
someone knows about them, I'd like to hear about it. Also, in my
courses I usually go for paperbacks: Goodwin, Nelson, Ackerman, &
Weisskopf (M.E. Sharpe) for intro micro and Michl (again M.E.
Sharpe) for intermediate macro.
I haven't tried Goodwin, Nelson & Harris (M.E. Sharpe) for intro macro
(even though I helped write part of it), but maybe this will serve
your purpose, Paul. The book has one chapter on AS/AD (where AD is
replaced by ADE, meaning "aggregate demand equilibrium"), but it has
the inflation rate on the vertical axis, which is a big improvement
over the standard. The AS curve is a version of the short-run Phillips
Curve. The more I look at the book the more I think that I made a
mistake not using it.
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