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Microeconomics

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I am a student in college who has purchased and read Boyes/Melvin's Microeconmics, Fourth Edition. I regard the book to be of inferior quality and sloppy. Although I can understand the concepts coming from the text, the writing itself is inherently poor. There are many examples of the authors misusing words, mispelling words, and making the text generally more complicated than it needs to be. To professors looking for a microeconomics textbook, please look elsewhere, for I am not the only student who has encountered these problems at my school. Thankyou.

Even though I agree with many of the opinions that Boyes expresses in his book, I dare say that he does not know the difference between an opinion and a fact. Teaching this sort of thinking to our impressionable college students is dangerous at best and disastrous at worst. College is a place where kids are supposed to be taught how to think. Indoctrination of our youth is the worst kind of sin because we are condemning the next generation to a lifetime of limited thought and stagnation of progress.

There are many controversial topics in Economics. For most of them, Boyes only tells the student his own point of view. Nevermind the point of view of anyone else. This book even goes as far as including an EDITORIAL at the end of every chapter.

Also disturbing, this book is full of mistakes. Mathematical errors, incorrect data, etc. I found at least two mistakes in every chapter. Most mistakes were minor, and a few were major.

Delivery time was exceptional, I needed this book for class and expected it would take a week or two to receive it. I had it in a matter of days, less than a week. The condition of the book would have been exceptional had it been packaged differently. It was shipped in a thermatically sealed plastic bag. The postal service did something that cut through the bag and into to book (looked like it had been cut with a utility knife). Damage was to the cover and through the first 20-25 pages. I was completely satisfied with everything except the method of packaging.

I ordered the Microeconomics 7th edition book and the seller sent me the 4th edition of the book. I needed to have correct book for my class and and also the shipping company used was late on my order after I purchased one day shipping. I will no longer be purchasing anything from this seller and questioning purchasing anything further from amazon.

For a little more money I would have received the whole student support package including the CD ROM, the book was in good shape but other sites include more infomation when you purchase.