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Summary: More international materials
Review: As the economy goes global, we'd tell our students more about what's going on around the world. In the last part, International Economics, the authors not only address the traditional topics in international trade but cover the economic growth in developing nations, transition economics, and alternative economic systems as well.But for some unknown reason, under the topic of "a new world trade agreement: GATT and the final act", the authors failed to mention the WTO which came into existence on 1 January 1995 as a fruit of Uruguay Round negotiations (1986-94).
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Summary: More international materials
Review: As the economy goes global, we'd tell our students more about what's going on around the world. In the last part, International Economics, the authors not only address the traditional topics in international trade but cover the economic growth in developing nations, transition economics, and alternative economic systems as well. But for some unknown reason, under the topic of "a new world trade agreement: GATT and the final act", the authors failed to mention the WTO which came into existence on 1 January 1995 as a fruit of Uruguay Round negotiations (1986-94).
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Summary: I like the multimedia supplements!
Review: I like the ABC News/ Prentice Hall Video Library (1998/99), Powerpoint lecture presentation, and computerized test bank that come with this book. These stuffs can enhance the efficiency of your teaching, especially to those graduate teaching assistants like me.
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Summary: A "Modern" Testbook
Review: It's "modern" because of the following features: 1. Anonline teaching-studying environment. You may not just regard it as a powerful tool for both the instructor and students, you shall take it as a trend, where our teaching will head for in the near future. This is kind of structural change in the teaching methods. Before I came here to be a PhD student in Economics and teach Introductory Economics as an Assistant Instructor, I had been working for a company who was trying to move all the lectures of a university to the web! Technology makes the shift from traditional classrooms to the web applicable. In the near future, I believe, people will be used to such ideas as online homework, online group discussion, etc. The authors of this book are among the frontiers who try to bring this revolutionary change into reality and, up to now, they've done it pretty well.... But I do want to let you know that there are a study guide with all kinds of exercises which can be taken and graded online, a Prentice Hall Learning on the Internet Partnership (PHLIP) system offering varieties of downloadable supplements, a Study Hall, a Faculty Lounge, and a Research Area. Although it's still far from kind of Pareto Optimum, I should say I like it! 2. A bundle of multimedia supplements. With this book, you will have ABC News/ Prentice Hall Video Library (1998/99), Powerpoint lecture presentation, and a computerized test bank. These stuffs can enhance the efficiency of your teaching, especially to those graduate teaching assistants. 3. Up-to-date examples and topics. Most of the tables and figures have been updated with the 1997-1998 data. And there are up-to-date real life examples throughout the text, which are well connected to the theoretical contexts. In Part 4 (Chapter 18~20), Current Microeconomic Issues, the authors address important topics that have recently emerged as major economic issues, including health-care reform, immigration, urban problem and crime, and welfare reform. All this, together with those Issues and Debate boxes, may greatly facilitate our attempt to make the course more attractive to the principle students. 4. More international materials. As the economy goes global, we'd tell our students more about what's going on around the world. In the last part, International Economics, the authors not only address the traditional topics in international trade but cover the economic growth in developing nations, transition economics, and alternative economic systems as well. But for some unknown reason, under the topic of "a new world trade agreement: GATT and the final act", the authors failed to mention the WTO which came into existence on 1 January 1995 as a fruit of Uruguay Round negotiations (1986-94). The general orientation of the book is theory with applications, and the authors seem to emphasize the real-world application a lot. The text is of medium reading level, although sometimes the extensive introduction to terms is unavoidable in introductory texts. That is to say, we can find pages with five or six terms crowded together, but that's what happens to almost every introductory textbook and generally expected when you touch a new subject at the first time. The legibility is good. The authors repeat the terms in the margin and highlight the major principles of economics. The highlights flow logically from the preceding text and into the text that follows. The students may find these very useful as a way of reviewing the key points in each chapter to prepare for exams. Mathematics is used broadly in the book but limited to simple algebra, i.e., no calculus is used. So the level thus is appropriate for an introductory economics class.
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Summary: About the mathematics used in the book
Review: Mathematics is used broadly in the book but limited to simple algebra, i.e., no calculus is used. So the level thus is appropriate for an introductory economics class.
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Summary: Up-to-date examples and topics
Review: Most of the tables and figures have been updated with the 1997-1998 data. And there are up-to-date real life examples throughout the text, which are well connected to the theoretical contexts. In Part 4 (Chapter 18~20), Current Microeconomic Issues, the authors address important topics that have recently emerged as major economic issues, including health-care reform, immigration, urban problem and crime, and welfare reform. All this, together with those Issues and Debate boxes, may greatly facilitate our attempt to make the course more attractive to the principle students.
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Summary: Up-to-date examples and topics
Review: Most of the tables and figures have been updated with the 1997-1998 data. And there are up-to-date real life examples throughout the text, which are well connected to the theoretical contexts. In Part 4 (Chapter 18~20), Current Microeconomic Issues, the authors address important topics that have recently emerged as major economic issues, including health-care reform, immigration, urban problem and crime, and welfare reform. All this, together with those Issues and Debate boxes, may greatly facilitate our attempt to make the course more attractive to the principle students.
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Summary: General Orientation of the book
Review: The general orientation of the book is theory with applications, and the authors seem to emphasize the real-world application a lot.
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Summary: Reading level of the book
Review: The text is of medium reading level, although sometimes the extensive introduction to terms is unavoidable in introductory texts. That is to say, we can find pages with five or six terms crowded together, but that's what happens to almost every introductory textbook and generally expected when you touch a new subject at the first time.
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Summary: Reading level of the book
Review: The text is of medium reading level, although sometimes the extensive introduction to terms is unavoidable in introductory texts. That is to say, we can find pages with five or six terms crowded together, but that's what happens to almost every introductory textbook and generally expected when you touch a new subject at the first time.
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