Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Help Me Make a TextBook


It is really amazing the amount of materials on the web these days-hooray to capitalism. I am starting a new project for which would appreciate readers help-to develop an intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics 'textbook' based on the best of the material freely available on the companion sites of textbooks.

MICROECONOMICS

-Preliminaries (Pindyck and Rubinfeld, Microeconomics)
-The Basics of Supply and Demand
-Consumer Behavior
-Individual and Market Demand
-Uncertainty and Consumer Behavior
-The Firm
-Collusion and tacit collusion
-The Theory of Demand
-Inputs and Production Functions-Costs and Cost Minimization
-Cost Curves


Appendix;
Basic Maths Review (download the material in zip format, from Microeconomics and Behaviour, Frank and Parker)
-"Calculus Results for the Non-Calculus Speaker"
-Constrained maximum and minimum values
Excelets

MACROECONOMICS
-What is Macroeconomics? (from Burda & Wyplosz: Macroeconomics, arguably the best intermediate macroeconomics textbook?)
-Measuring the Macroeconomy (Brad Delong)
-Monetary Policy
-Shocks and Policy Responses in the Open Economy
-Performance and Policy in Europe, the USA, and Japan
-Measuring the Price Level and Inflation (Frank and Parker)
-Purchasing Power Parity
-Imperfect Competition
-The world economy


Appendix
Glossary
The Mundell-Fleming Model (IS-LM Model of the open economy)
An Update on the Shadow Economy
The Algebra of Budget Deficits
The Chronicles of Macroeconomics
Deflators and Price Indices
Important Diagrams and Graphs (Carlin & Soskice: Macroeconomics)
Zipf's Law, or the Rank-Size Distribution
International Trade and the World Economy (Charts in Excel
Macroeconomics FlashCards
Some webpages useful for teachers of intermediate macroeconomics
Macro Animations

2 comments:

Unknown said...

This might help:

http://www.pkarchive.org/theory/13.html

Ken Houghton said...

You also might want to contact Rick Watson at the Global Text Project.