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Summary: very elementary
Review: Frankly, I find this text rather elementary. It is written on about an 8th grade level and this ruins the otherwise good examples and thorough analysis. For anyone remotely interesting in actually learning economics (rather than just memorizing the book to get A's on tests), a supplementary source is needed.
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Summary: First-time micro students NEED an understandable text!
Review: I have used Parkin as an auxilliary source for my micro 102 classes for years. His examples are products that can be related to by 19-year-olds, AND he does not use wheat or other perfectly competitive products to exemplify a downward sloping demand curve! Many other do, which causes great confusion among the students. What is wrong with careful, thoughtful, comprehensive explanations of concepts that are difficult for first time micro students? He covers several complicated topics that are left out of the more highly rated texts by Mankiw and others. I am wondering if we are even rating the same book...I give it the maximum rating!
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Summary: First-time micro students NEED an understandable text!
Review: I have used Parkin as an auxilliary source for my micro 102 classes for years. His examples are products that can be related to by 19-year-olds, AND he does not use wheat or other perfectly competitive products to exemplify a downward sloping demand curve! Many other do, which causes great confusion among the students. What is wrong with careful, thoughtful, comprehensive explanations of concepts that are difficult for first time micro students? He covers several complicated topics that are left out of the more highly rated texts by Mankiw and others. I am wondering if we are even rating the same book...I give it the maximum rating!
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Summary: Substantive and Accessible Text for the Introductory Student
Review: Parkin's text was designed for the beginning economics student. Those who state that the text is not rigorous enough should understand the text was not written for the advanced student. Those who complain that the text is replete with explanations of basic topics do not understand that beginning students need reaffirmation of presented concepts. Parkin's text strives to appeal to the broad base of students without the dilution that seems to occur when a text is written with "non-majors" in mind. I read several introductory texts before adopting the Parkin text for my advanced placement class. I chose the Parkin text because it provided the optimum mix of rigor and explanation, without sacrificing analysis (within a mathematical context) for a purely verbal approach.
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Summary: memorization 101 with parkin's econ book
Review: Sycophants in my economics class memorized the book and merely recited it on the exam. The book overly encourages rote memorization and presents most of the material as incontrovertible.
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Summary: Horrible book. Buy McConnell Brue
Review: The Parkin book is dumb down but so much so that you dont understand Microeconomics the way you'll need to if you plan on taking advanced theory, money and banking, etc.I prefer McConnell Brue who has been the staple and bible of Microeconomics for years! Smart universities choose McConnell Brue and dumb ones like Micro econ at Rice seem to choose Parkin.
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Summary: Killjoy
Review: This book is terrible, unclear and contributed to my thorough distaste for the otherwise interesting subject of economics.
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Summary: The best college textbook on economic theory there is.
Review: What is this arrogant social science named economics? Read this and find out; the answer is not at all what politicians, journalists, and lay people think it is. EE&A is admittedly one of the most difficult of the many undergrad texts in economic theory. But it is also unusually well written because Diane Eaton is a professional writer and editor. EE&A also nicely marries two distinct contrasting traditions in economic theory: mathematical microeconomics (Curtis Eaton), and applied price theory (Doug Allen). The authors never lose sight that economics is rightly about human questions and problems, and not about a showy display of elementary mathematics applied to the material side of human life. That this text is not better known is evidence of the shabby state of many USA undergraduate courses.
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