ECN201 Principles of Microeconomics
John P. Burkett
Fall 2012


This site provides links to class materials and related resources for economics. The portable document format items (the syllabus and errata) can be viewed and printed with a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat, Evince, Okular, or Xpdf.


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