Paperback: 472 pages
Publisher: Cengage Learning; 13 edition (March 24, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1305280601
ISBN-13: 978-1305280601
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 0.5 x 10.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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I used this book for my college intro to macroeconomics course. The information in the book is really well explained, I never had a hard time understanding and it was enough to read it once and then be able to work on problem sets. Moreover, it really helped me understand lectures much better. However, one thing that I really hated about how it is organized was the fact that introduced some examples in text boxes cutting the paragraphs and making the reader move back and forth in order to finish reading the chapter. Besides this, in my class I used to use graphs intensively and in the book I encountered information about graphs that were on the next page and I had to keep moving back and forth in order to understand. It was not a big deal in the beginning, but as I started to review for my exams it became so annoying.Pros: easy to understand, a lot of informationCons: graphs and some examples
I ended up purchasing a used paperback copy of this edition. It was used, so the damages have nothing to do with my opinion. Everything is explained clearly, with some long winded political bias of course, but you get through the content. Plenty of visual aides.
I studied under Alan Blinder and I know he is a brilliant man, but his book is not disciplined enough. Explanations are reduced at the cost of large big-picture concepts which are, as a result, carelessly encountered. Additionally, the reader will be surprised at how much the text is littered with typos.
I never used this book, my professor said it would be good for review, I think I might of opened it once, but from when I opened it it was really well written.
The price wasn't all that great when I realized that the economics hardcover book was only like $2 more but overall the book came in good condition.
Needed book for econ class, was great to have and at a great price with study guide included. Got a B+ so guess it was worth it.
this is a good econ book...the information is easy to follow and is greatly helpful when doing assignments for class.
There was already writing in the book-some were in pencils and others were in pen so I couldn't erase those markings.
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