This is the home page for the Textbook Commentaries Project. The TCP is a project making available short commentaries either on chapters in standard economics textbooks or on themes relevant for those textbooks. Select the relevant chapter or theme to find relevant commentaries.
Commentaries contain short points providing further elaboration, critical assessment or alternative perspectives on textbook material. They can be used in lectures and tutorials, added as links to courses, or for general interest by students. Discussion on the commentaries is possible using the “comments” feature that can be found on each commentary page.
See here for some background explanation of the project.
Textbooks
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Mankiw 9th edition ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Introduction to Commentaries ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 1: Ten Principles of Economics ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 2: Thinking Like an Economist ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 3: Interdependence and the Gains from Trade ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 4: The Market Forces of Supply and Demand ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 5: Elasticity and Its Application ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 6 – Supply, Demand, and Government Policies ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 7: Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 8 – Application: The Costs of Taxation ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 9 – Application: International Trade ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 10 – Externalities ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 11 – Public Goods and Common Resources ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 12 – The Design of the Tax System ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 13 – Costs of Production ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 14 – Firms in Competitive Markets ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 15 – Monopoly ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 16 – Monopolistic Competition ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 17 – Oligopoly ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 18 – The Markets for Factors of Production ›
- Mankiw 9th Edn Chapter 19 – Earnings and Discrimination ›
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Mankiw 7th edition ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 1: Ten Principles of Economics ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 2: Thinking Like an Economist ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 3: Interdependence and the Gains from Trade ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 4: The Market Forces of Supply and Demand ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 21: The Theory of Consumer Choice ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 23: Measuring a Nation’s Income ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 24: Measuring the Cost of Living ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 25: Production and Growth ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 26: Saving, Investment and the Financial System ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 28: Unemployment ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 29: The Monetary System ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 30: Money Growth and Inflation ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 31: Open-Economy Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 32: A Macroeconomic Theory of the Open Economy ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 33: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 34: The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 35: The Short-run Trade-off Between Inflation and Unemployment ›
- Mankiw 7th Edn Chapter 36: Six Debates over Macroeconomic Policy ›