Economics
Posted by Stephen Cline on January 14th, 2010
McConnell and Brue’s Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies is the leading Principles of Economics textbook. It continues to be innovative while teaching students in a clear, unbiased way. The 18th Edition builds upon the tradition of leadership by sticking to 3 main goals: help the beginning student master the principles essential for understanding the economizing problem, specific economic issues, and the policy alternatives; help the student understand and apply the… Buy Economics at Amazon
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For $140 you’d think they’d sell you the whole book, but there is some content (listed below) that is only available on the web. Well, maybe it’s available – let me see – you need to login as student, new registration, did you get a registration card with your book? Well, I don’t know but it’s sure not here now. Well then, you’ll have to pay another $16 to access the web content. How would you like to pay?
Honestly, I knew textbook companies were crooks but….
What’s missing: chapters on tech and efficiency, developing countries, and the gold-standard and Bretton Woods systems. Also there are worked problems, interactive graphs, and 70 articles on certain histories.
None of this is available for the $140 price. Or maybe it is. Maybe I accidentally threw away my registration card because (silly me) I had no reason to suspect that part of the book was not included with the book. Now, without said card I will have to pony up another $16 to finish buying the book I thought I bought. FU, McGraw-Hill.
Chapters have changed since the 17th edition, hard to get information straight when talking about Macro and Micro. You have to start in chapters one thru three then you go to chapter 27 thru 34 then go back to 5. It is almost as if the 18th edition was done by someone who never taught.
This version contains both the micro and macro sections together. There are also separate micro only and macro only versions of the text.
A study guide is available separately: ISBN: 978-0-07-336880-1. The study guide contains a summary of each chapter along with short answer, true/false, and multiple choice questions (with answers).
Two of the chapters (11W & 39W) and one supplement (39S) are only available online in PDF form (from mcconnell18e.com). There is no charge to download these chapters. Other free content like quizzes and interactive graphs can be found on the same website.
Premium content–available for a fee on the same website–includes:
- key questions (the same key questions in the text, but no answers!)
- narrated slides (handy to watch before a class, but not a substitute for reading the text)
- iPod content (the same narrated slides in iPod video and audio format)
- Paul Solomon videos (like a mini lecture)
The version I bought from Amazon did not come with a registration code for premium content, but I was able to sign up for $20.00.