ECN201 Principles of Microeconomics
John P. Burkett
Fall 2012
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CLASS MATERIALS
Syllabus
Software
for solving linear programming problems
Errata for textbook
RESOURCES FOR ECONOMICS
American Economic Association
(Information for undergraduate students)
Bureau of Economic Analysis
(Official statistics on U.S. economy)
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
(Free software for technical writing)
The Economist (News
weekly with good coverage of economics)
Emacs (Free text editor,
useful for programming and technical writing)
PlanetMath (Mathematics encyclopedia)
R project (Free
statistical software, well suited to empirical economic research)
Reference
databases in URI library (Access to EconLit, etc.)
SAGE (Free mathematics software)
Last modified: September 1, 2012
John P. Burkett
Department of Economics
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881–0808
phone (401) 874–9195