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Michael Nuwer wrote:
>Samuel Bostaph estimates that about ten thousand
>students at his university have used Paul
>Heyne's Economic Way of Thinking in the period
>between the late 1970s and the present. As a
>matter of reference, E.K. Hunt and Howard
>Sherman's text, Economics: An Introduction to
>Traditional and Radical Views, sold 30,000
>copies in its first year (1972) and 10-15,000
>copies a year into the mid-1980s. Between 1970
>and 1984 McConnell's text was averaging more
>than 100,000 copies a year (as high as 200,000
>in the year a new edition was released) and
>Samuelson's text was not too far behind.
>(Kenneth G. Elzinga, "The Eleven Principles of
>Economics," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 58,
>No. 4 (Apr., 1992), pp. 861-879. See Table III for sales data.)
>
>Michael Nuwer
>
While we're mentioning Hunt, let me highly
recommend his "History of Economic Thought."
John Médaille
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