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International Economics: Theory and Policy plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit (7th Edition)

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Would be more suitable for pg students or ug students majoring in international economics. Better to read after having some basic background in international trade and international monetary system. I'd advice to read "International Trade Theory and Policy Analysis" by Steven Suranovic for example, before going ahead with this text-book.

krugman is an off the wall, rude, vicious, name calling, psychopath...but that didnt really come out in his book. i was surprised the guy wrote a decent economics book. he must have been smart before he went crazy hanging out with all those liberals

Perhaps it was the professor or perhaps it was this book (though the professor basically read verbatim from the ppt slides provided by the book's publishers, so it's the book anyway you look at it), but this text left you confuse and dazed. It was verbose and tedious at times. The examples given could have been thought up by anyone with commonsense, thus it was somewhat superfluous when the authors spent 1-2 pages explaining the example.


Also, the main text of the chapters would not provide a student with adequate information for tackling the exercises at the end of the chapter.

Krugman rehashes old Keynesian thinking, without challenging it. Science does not move an inch without people daring to kick the can of the old school. This book is very old school and the section on the gold standard is specifically contemptable by its total lack of foundation. I have found better education elsewhere. Besides-the-point mathematics is leaving students confused and not any wiser, except that they probably wasted some money on this book. It passes off for knowledgable but it can not hide its lack of understanding. I certainly will not teach this to my children. If anything, I would recommend Carl Menger, starting with a disequilibrium theory, which seems much more suitable for a non-linear world such as ours.

Quick delivery, book was in great shape when I received it. Greatr seller, thank you.