I started Econ 301 at Western International University yesterday. The class seems good and it shouldn’t be too hard to get an ‘A’.

Bad News:
The textbook (softcover, mind you) costs a whopping $160!?!?! What gives? I feel like I’ve been financially taken on that one. Hello, Better Business Bureau?
That price is not ethical, period.
“In Soviet Russia you do not buy textbook — texbook buys you!”

Good News:
Greg Mankiw is the author and seems to be generally aligned with my personal New/Neo-Keynesian leanings. In fact check out his 7 economic New Year’s resolutions for 2006