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 | | Boyes, Macroeconomics, 7e by William Boyes, Michael Melvin ISBN-10: 9780618761272 ISBN-10: 0-618-76127-6 ISBN-13: 9780618761272 ISBN-13: 978-0-618-76127-2 Paperback 2007-01-22 Houghton Mifflin Company Find Lowest Price |
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good It came fast, but wasn't in as good of condition as they said. But it works, and I am pleased with it! | ||
Just be forewarned I cannot speak for the content of the book itself but just be forewarned that this is the Study Guide (not the student package and not the book itself. I've sent amazon the corrections and they may eventually be implemented with the page numbers and I'm submitting a picture as well. | ||
The book is full of normative statements. Too much bias. The book is not suitable for undergraduates who have never studied economics before. There are no alternative explanations of concepts. The text is full of indoctrination. What were the authors thinking at the time of writing the book? What's wrong about HAWALA network? They say it is an alternative way of transferring money to remote, poor areas in less developed countries, but immediately call it a financial channel for terrorists. For instance, in Chapter 2 the authors try to explain benefits of trade in case of Haiti and Dominican Republic. The goods chosen are not related goods (from the point of view of a producer, it is hard to imagine how a country would shift resources from healthcare units (?) to food output), so I had to alter goods and numbers to make more sense of the case. I said Haiti and Dominican Republic were both producing sugar and coffee. That way it is easier for students to imagine how a country would shift people, land, and other resources away from sugar plantations to coffee plantations. In their explanation, it seemed to me that authors forgot that they were trying to explain those things to recent high school graduates. They assumed students could understand their incomplete explanations. I do not recommend this book for introductory college economics. sincerely mr Chicago, IL | ||
This isn't a text book, it's an indoctrination -- and full of mistakes too! Even though I agree with many of the opinions that Boyes expresses in his book, I dare say that he does not know the difference between an opinion and a fact. Teaching this sort of thinking to our impressionable college students is dangerous at best and disastrous at worst. College is a place where kids are supposed to be taught how to think. Indoctrination of our youth is the worst kind of sin because we are condemning the next generation to a lifetime of limited thought and stagnation of progress. There are many controversial topics in Economics. For most of them, Boyes only tells the student his own point of view. Nevermind the point of view of anyone else. This book even goes as far as including an EDITORIAL at the end of every chapter. Also disturbing, this book is full of mistakes. Mathematical errors, incorrect data, etc. I found at least two mistakes in every chapter. Most mistakes were minor, and a few were major. | ||