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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economics_Anti-Textbook" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economics_Anti-Textbook</a></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<br></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The main thrust of the authors' argument is that basic economics courses, being centered around models of�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition" title="Perfect competition" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">perfect competition</a>, are biased towards the support of�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market" title="Free market" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">free market</a>�or�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire" title="Laissez-faire" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">laissez-faire</a>�ideologies, and neglect to mention conflicting evidence or give sufficient coverage of alternative descriptive models.</p>
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Despite not yet being reviewed in mainstream journals, as of February 2011 the introductory chapter has received 13,000 views on<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stumbleupon" title="Stumbleupon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">stumbleupon</a><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economics_Anti-Textbook#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[1]</a></sup>�and the book has attracted positive comment on various blogs</p>
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