RE: Re: inevitable textbook query

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

speaking of textbooks, there's hope for the future.

Frank Roosevelt is working on rewriting the Bowles/Edwards text,
UNDERSTANDING CAPITALISM. He seems less in love with mathematical formalism
than B&E were, so it would be an improvement.

Also, Neva Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, Kelvin Lancaster, Julie Nelson, & Thomas
Weisskopf are working on a book called MICROECONOMICS IN CONTEXT, which
looks excellent (in the manuscript stage) within the "big tent" of orthdox
economics. I'm told that there will be a MACROECONOMICS IN CONTEXT, too.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Lear [mailto:rael@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:38 AM
> To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PEN-L:24789] Re: inevitable textbook query
>
>
> On Monday, April 8, 2002 at 16:48:00 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
> >is there a half-decent introductory microeconomics textbook
> out there? (One
> >that isn't too filled with details.)
>
> I've recommended it before, and not sure I'd call it a "textbook", but
> I really like Yanis Varoufakis, *Foundations of Economics: A
> Beginner's Companion* (Routledge, 1998).
>
>
> Bill
>