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Has anyone read his stuff? Is it any good?Imagine renting a paperback for $129.
Cowen on economics
Dec 02, 2021
Last reply: 4 years ago
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Meanwhile, the hardcover is $18 ... to rent!
Hi, John:-
I took a look at the 3rd Edition (they're on 5th now). Looks like a standard economics 101 text, but quite pleasantly laid out and organized with lots of color and graphs. The soft cover edition probably smells nice.
Almost 1,000 pages including appendices, lots of reviews, lift-outs and problems and a few answers.
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Pretty much uncontaminated by any math beyond ~grade 8. They avoid scary derivative notation by putting a little arrow over the variable. Nothing like 2nd order systems to attempt to explain business cycles, that I can see.
Not sure the macro stuff explains adequately what's happening in recent years. Maybe the revised edition attempts to do so. The 3rd edition has a chapter on the 2008 GFC.
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