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Re: New Paul Krugman Textbook Website

Walt Byars wrote: 
I have that book for my class. It is just awful. We don't use that website
for our class though. I can't see how that site could be worse than Paul
Romer's econ.aplia.org


I didn't want to critique, since I've always been more sociologically
oriented, but FWIW, the last Soc textbook I used was awful... even the
answers to the questions on the midterm and finals were often incorrect,
or so vague as to leave room for dispute you could throw an Oxford
dictionary through.

Imagine though what it does to a community college student's self esteem
when they can debug an ostensibly authoritative book, so perhaps even
bad textbooks can STILL have some value.

Leigh
http://leighm.wordpress.com/

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