This adapted edition is produced by the university of minnesota libraries publishing through the elearning support initiative. David shapiro, pennsylvania state university david shapiro is professor emeritus of economics, demography, and womens, gender, and sexuality studies at the pennsylvania state university. Principles of economics is adapted from a work produced by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. If youre looking to enter a graduate profession ranked among the highestpaid of all subjects, an open university economics course is for you. He received a ba in economics and political science from the university of michigan, and an ma as well as a phd in economics from princeton university. The economics of food and agricultural markets 2nd edition. The university of south australia, unisa, is ranked in the top 10 universities nationally and amongst the. Distance learning and online courses open university. At the time, nobody could have imagined a world in which the people of every land, no matter how farflung, could hear the same talks by wellknown scholars and speakers, let alone see them animated as if on a.
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