The book’s aim, Zarghamee said, is to use empirical data, not just theoretical models. But it’s still an economics textbook for people who are not necessarily looking to go into economics.

Conventional economics textbooks cheat our students and economy out of a stronger future, argue the authors of an alternative economics text.

Robert J. Samuelson’s June 24 op-ed, “ It’s time we tear up our economics textbooks,” rightly criticized economics primers whose premises have been overtaken by huge events, such as the ...

The $250 Econ 101 Textbook We economics professors are missing a chance to teach a cardinal lesson about the unchecked rise of prices. By Craig Richardson Jan. 13, 2015 6:39 pm ET Resize ...

They included seven top principles of economics textbooks in their study presented at AEA, and have since incorporated an eighth book. The original textual analysis found that 30 percent of the people ...

Is economics about to succeed evolution as the next political battle to move into schools? Two recent articles complain, from different ends of the political spectrum, that economics textbooks are ...

Anders Fremstad, an economics professor at Colorado State University who teaches microeconomics from the CORE textbook, told me, “Teaching a version of economics where there is no such thing as ...

TEXTBOOKS are often contentious. In economics, most of the debate has been about how well the models they contain describe reality. Following the presentation of new research by Betsey Stevenson ...

The latest edition of the Baye/Prince book (8 th edition in 2013) will set you back $173.99 on Amazon. The latest edition of the Samuelson/Marks book (7 th edition in 2012) is cheaper--a mere $161.12.