The Economic Conversation:
Begin a new dialogue or comment on an existing one


In the table of contents below, underscored entries will take you to a section of the book where we invite you to grace us with your criticism and advice in the comment box that sits alongside each page. Highlighted sections contain student-teacher dialogues, an important part of the conversational approach used in the textbook. The representative "students" in these dialogues are modeled on the combined teaching experience — some 80 years! — of the authors. Here too, we invite you to critique the dialogues by writing in the comment box that appears on each page.

"... [T]he style of most textbooks ... is usually so single-voiced and authoritarian that students are left without a voice. Little wonder they're bored." ~~~ From Preface to Teachers

PART I. BEGINNING THE CONVERSATION

PART II. BUYING AND SELLING PRODUCTS

PART III. BUYING AND SELLING "INPUTS" FOR PRODUCTION

PART IV. MICROECONOMIC CONVERSATIONS

PART V. MACROECONOMICS: ISSUES AND INSTITUTIONS

PART VI. MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS

PART VII. MACROECONOMIC CONVERSATIONS

PART VIII. PARTING WORDS