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I agree about the original works.  I got more out of Keynes and Friedman than I ever got out of a textbook.

And, yes, there is big money in textbooks, if the author is well known and can, therefore, convince other professors to assign it to students.  I'm sure Krugman, Mankiw and Romer have earned plenty on textbooks, alone.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:43:16 AM EST
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I was talking about the second-hand market.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:45:09 AM EST
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Oh, the second-hand market is fantastic for all of the textbook stores around here (all two of them).  I was under the impression that collusion was illegal, but I suppose it is not when the university is one of the parties that benefit from it.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:51:55 AM EST
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