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Title of Journal: Public Choice
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Abbravation: Public Choice
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Authors: David Hollanders
Publish Date: 2015/01/15
Volume: 162, Issue: 3-4, Pages: 451-452
Abstract
Few books have to combine as many virtues as do economic textbooks A textbook needs to explain theories in an accessible yet correct and rigorous way Ideally textbooks communicate that economics is a pluriform endeavour with different theoretical perspectives without getting side tracked And they are only fully satisfactory if theoretical insights come with empirical applications which in turn should not be out dated a few years after publication This is all to say that economic textbooks can and indeed should be evaluated with several criteria It follows that no textbook is perfect but that in turn implies that every new textbook can potentially add valueThe textbook Applied Welfare Economicstries to do exactly that in the realm of public economics The opening statement is “a deep understanding of some crucial questions and concepts is often more important … than learning cookbook recipes about solving problems” p xv–xvi This contrasts with traditional textbooks
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