Acknowledgments

I am grateful to many colleagues and students, whom I have consulted over the years, including Don Brown, Tim Breshanan, Marcelo Clerici-Arias, Anne Kreuger, Tom McCurdy, Paul Milgrom, Roger Noll, John Pencavel, Paul Romer, Nate Rosenberg, Mark Tendell and Frank Wolak. I must acknowledge with very special gratitude Akila’s partnership in this project. Akila first demonstrated his extraordinary teaching and writing skills even before completing his PhD at Stanford. After receiving his PhD, Akila joined the faculty at Wellesley College, where he has taught the Principles course for many semesters and further established his reputation for teaching excellence, and in 2002, received the Anna and Samuel Pinanski Teaching Award. His ability to get complex topics across to his students and his enthusiasm for bringing policy implications alive is clearly reflected in our new coauthored book.

I am exceedingly grateful to John for giving me the opportunity to communicate my enthusiasm for teaching economics to a broader audience than the students in my classes at Wellesley. My passion for economics stems from the inspiration I received from my economics professors: Barbara Craig and Peter Montiel at the undergraduate level, and John Taylor, Frank Wolak, and Chad Jones at the graduate level. I too have benefited immensely from working with my colleagues. The faculty members in the Economics Department at Wellesley live up to the liberal arts ideal that I aspire to, combining excellent teaching with active research. Special thanks are owed to the late Chip Case, Courtney Coile and David Lindauer for the time they spent helping me understand how best to pitch topics in microeconomics that I am less familiar with teaching than they are. The real inspirations for this book, however, are the students that I have taught over the past two decades—two years at Stanford, but especially, the last seventeen years at Wellesley. Without their enthusiasm for economics, their willingness to be continually challenged, and their need to better understand an ever-changing world, none of this would be possible. My contributions to this book are shaped by countless hours spent talking economics with my students.

Together, we would also like to thank William B. Stronge of Florida Atlantic University, who provided wonderful end-of-chapter problems that are conceptually challenging and require students to think more deeply about the concepts. Bill’s efforts helped us meet an incredibly demanding schedule, and we are grateful for his contributions. Numerous reviewers provided insights, suggestions, and feedback along the way—often at critical points in product and supplement development. These individuals include Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Erik Craft, University of Richmond; David H. Eaton, Murray State University; Lewis Freiberg, Northeastern Illinois University; Wang Fuzhong, Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics; Janet Gerson, University of Michigan; Lisa Grobar, California State University, Long Beach; Ritika Gugnani, Jaipuria Institute of Management (Noida); Gautam Hazarika, University of Texas, Brownsville; Aaron Johnson, Missouri State University; Jacob Kurien, Rockhurst University; Babu Nahata, University of Louisville; Soloman Namala, Cerritos College; Sebastien Oleas, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Greg Pratt, Mesa Community College; Virginia Reilly, Ocean County College; Brian Rosario, University of California, Davis; William B. Stronge, Florida Atlantic University; Della Lee Sue, Marist College; J. S. Uppal, State University of New York, Albany; Michele T. Villinski, DePauw University; and Laura Wolff, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. We are grateful to Sarah L. Stafford of the College of William and Mary and Robert J. Rossana of Wayne State University for their detailed and timely accuracy checks of the main texts and several key supplements. We are especially appreciative of the contributions of the Sixth Edition supplements authors for their creativity, dedication, and careful coordination of content; this group includes Sarah E. Culver, University of Alabama, Birmingham; David H. Eaton, Murray State University; John Kane, State University of New York, Oswego; Jim Lee, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; John S.Min, Northern Virginia Community College; Wm. Stewart Mounts, Jr., Mercer University; David H. Papell, University of Houston; Virginia Reilly, Ocean County College Center for Economic Education; Brian Rosario, University of California, Davis; John Solow, University of Iowa; William B. Stronge, Florida Atlantic University; Eugenio D. Suarez, Trinity University; and Laura Wolff, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. We would also like to thank Edward Gullason of Dowling College for reviewing many of these supplements and Matthew Berg and Julia Ong for copyediting them.