Re: [PEN-L] Anyone familiar with these textbooks?

2006-08-31 Thread Robert Scott Gassler
I'm catching up on my emails. Have I said thank you yet? At 19:45 24/08/2006, you wrote: The CEPR paper is here. In the footnotes are all the references you will want. http://www.cepr.net/publications/2006_07_unemployment_institutions.pdf Paul P Robert Scott Gassler wrote: Can you give me

Re: [PEN-L] Anyone familiar with these textbooks?

2006-08-25 Thread Gassler Robert
Thank you very much. The CEPR paper is here. In the footnotes are all the references you will want. http://www.cepr.net/publications/2006_07_unemployment_institutions.pdf Paul P Robert Scott Gassler wrote: Can you give me the CEPR reference? and any OECD etc ones too. At 05:24 24/08/2006,

Re: [PEN-L] Anyone familiar with these textbooks?

2006-08-24 Thread Robert Scott Gassler
Thanks for the heads up on Baldwin and Wyplosz. Before I taught my EU econ course this summer my colleagues who had taught it before warned me that there were no good books on the subject. I looked at half a dozen and confirmed their view. I tried the book by Nello but it was superficial to say

Re: [PEN-L] Anyone familiar with these textbooks?

2006-08-24 Thread Robert Scott Gassler
Can you give me the CEPR reference? and any OECD etc ones too. At 05:24 24/08/2006, you wrote: Well the text by Blau, Ferber, and Winkler is probably not too bad. I haven't seen the latest edition but earlier editions were, well OK, though not great. Of course, I think my book on Women and

Re: [PEN-L] Anyone familiar with these textbooks?

2006-08-24 Thread paul phillips
The CEPR paper is here. In the footnotes are all the references you will want. http://www.cepr.net/publications/2006_07_unemployment_institutions.pdf Paul P Robert Scott Gassler wrote: Can you give me the CEPR reference? and any OECD etc ones too. At 05:24 24/08/2006, you wrote: Well the

[PEN-L] Anyone familiar with these textbooks?

2006-08-23 Thread Walt Byars
Well, I picked up my textbooks for the new semester. Does anyone have any idea what I should expect from the books/classes Microeconomics by Jeffrey Perloff The Economics of Women, Men, and Work by Blau, Ferber, and Winkler The Economics of European Integration by Baldwin and Wyplosz From

Re: [PEN-L] Anyone familiar with these textbooks?

2006-08-23 Thread paul phillips
Well the text by Blau, Ferber, and Winkler is probably not too bad. I haven't seen the latest edition but earlier editions were, well OK, though not great. Of course, I think my book on Women and Work is much better ( Women and Work, 3rd edition, with Erin Phillips, (Lorimer: Toronto, 2000).