RE: inevitable textbook query

["Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx>]

I have two books here that are worth taking a look at:

Microeconomics: Neoclassical and Institutionalist Perspectives on
Economic Behavior by Susan Himmelweit, Roberto Simonetti and Andrew
Trigg; Thomson Learning, 2001.

Alternative Principles of Economics by Stanley Bober, M. E. Sharpe,
2001.

One of my favorites was Mayo Toruno's Political Economics of Capitalism,
but my understanding is it is out of print, but there may be a new
edition forthcoming.

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Of the mainstream one's I liked Roger Arnold for micro, even though it
is ideologically repugnant.  Ditto Ekelund and Tollison for macro.

I have a theory about mainstream macro economics texts.  It is that the
more conservative neoclassical and public choice types do a better
presentation of the Keynesian theory, and the more 'Keynesian' types do
a better presentation of the neoclassical theory.  The reason is that
both sides bend over backwards to show they are not 'biased' and in so
doing actually do a better job on the theory they don't support.