A colleague of mine has been using Ayers and Collinge for Micro principles - she is quite happy with it. I personally was unimpressed with the book (exposition of difficult topics, examples used for the simple topics) and also with the authors' credentials. I know that that means nothing, but when books written by people with bigger names are available -- and I may have to explain/justify my choice of text to a noneconomist at some point later -- why not use those?
On the other hand, the level of rigor in A and C is probably a good match to our students - mainly business majors taking economics because it's required.
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Has anyone used Ayers and Collinge in a traditional course ? I use the Micro principles for my online course . I seems to work well.
Joanne Spitz
UMASS/Boston
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