Talk:Principles of Economics/Cover

Merging principles and Introduction
I, a long time ago, started the "Introduction to economics" but ran out of time. The point of that was to write a short book that explains economics from the start to people who are do NOT intent to become economists. :) I have looked for such sources before, and I can't really find any. Instead most texts on economics quite quickly delves into detail and specialized nomenclature, which is great for those who know a lot or intend to know a lot, but not so great for those who just want to understand the basics.

Now I return to wikibooks, and see happily that my effort hasn't been completely useless, several people have now improved on what I originally wrote. I also find "Principles of economics" an effort to write an expert book on the subject.

How would it be if we used "Introduction..." as a first chapter in the "Principles..."? Does that make sense? Or does the different audiences mean that they should keep separate? --Regebro 12:50, 25 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Regebro, I definitely like your idea. I too started working an wikibooks econ. text a long time ago and ran out of time. What I have been trying to create with Principles of Economics is a text that is a definitive source of economics knowledge. Each section would start from the very beginning and explain everything for individuals who do not intend to pursue an in-depth knowledge of economics, however, as each section continues on the information becomes more and more detailed in order to also satiate the students (and other inquisitive minds) who are intending to ascertain deep knowledge of economic theory. Let's definitely make a merger, and perhaps you have some suggestions about how to make that happen. Thanks! --Endless Melee


 * Well, I'll take a deeper look on "Principles" and see how we can merge it. --Regebro 15:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I have corrected some of your syntax so that you are now saying what you wanted to say.

Opposition to the Merger
I don't think we should merge these two books. As the original author suggests, the intent of "Introduction to Economics" was to provide a primer on the big ideas in economics, which is an area that I think deserves attention. There is certainly utility in having an introduction to economics in Principles of Economics, but I think it already does that pretty well.

--Greenm1981 (talk) 20:22, 31 October 2008 (UTC)