Best way to learn entire course in a week?

[brendan]

www.nber.org/confer/2007/pef07/shleifer.pdf

"Our data reveal a consistent and large adverse effect of corporate taxation on both investment and entrepreneurship. A 10 percentage point increase in the effective corporate tax rate reduces the investment to GDP ratio by about 2 percentage points (mean is 21%), and the official entry rate by 1.3 percentage points (mean is 8%)."

[Andy]

The textbook is useless?? I hope not

[Eriny]

It's not useless as such, but it won't give you much current information given that most were written circa 2003. You're supposed to have an overall knowledge of the last decade of the Australian economy, with particular emphasis on the last 3 years. So yeah, in that way, you can't possibly do your best in economics with only a textbook. Though, hopefully you have a good teacher who will help update your knowledge anyway.

[Wst]

Economics is changing its study design next year (I think), so at least you'll be able to refer to this year's statistics in textbooks which is an advantage over doing it this year. You'll still need to keep updated with the most current statistics (e.g. inflation, unemployment, cash rate) over the course of 2008.

[Andy]

I think keeping up to date with curent performance and stats is what I will need to focus on. Learning economic objectives and definitions for opportunity cost can't be that tough with a bit of dedication lol.

[brendan]

put simply the text book is useless =]

well that means u got a pretty shit textbook there are good textbooks out there, try
1. principles of microeconomics by mankiw, king, and gans
2. principles of macroeconomics by bernanke, frank, and nilss Olekalns

[sheepz]

well that means u got a pretty shit textbook there are good textbooks out there, try
1. principles of microeconomics by mankiw, king, and gans
2. principles of macroeconomics by bernanke, frank, and nilss Olekalns

arent those economics textbooks for uni economics?