Introduction to Economic Analysis
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Introduction to Economic Analysis (ISBN 1-60049-000-X) is a university microeconomics
Microeconomics
Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of how the individual modern household and firms make decisions to allocate limited resources. Typically, it applies to markets where goods or services are being bought and sold...

 textbook by Caltech Professor Preston McAfee
Preston McAfee
Preston McAfee is a Vice President and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research where he leads the Microeconomics and Social Systems group. Prior to Yahoo!, he was the J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics, and Management at the California Institute of Technology, where he was the...

. It is available free of charge under Creative Commons
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  (an open source
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) license; under this "license that requires attribution, users can pick and choose chapters or integrate with their own material".

Introduction to Economic Analysis was the first published complete textbook being openly available online . McAfee was named SPARC innovator
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 for year 2009 for making the book freely accessible.

The book has been updated three times since it was first introduced. Version 2 is available online from Professor McAfee.

Version 3 is co-authored with Professor Tracy Lewis of the Fuqua School of Business and was published by Flat World Knowledge
Flat World Knowledge
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 in 2009 under a Creative Commons
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 license. Introduction to Economic Analysis is already in use on campuses from Harvard to New York University
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External links

  • Introduction to Economic Analysis on R. Preston McAfee website. Version 2.
  • Introduction to Economic Analysis 2009. McAfee, R. Preston and Tracy R. Lewis. Revised and expanded version published as an open textbook
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     for intermediate microeconomics with integrated introductory material by Flat World Knowledge
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    , Irvington, New York
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