Word: steiner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barthold, a fourth-year graduate student in the Economics Department who voted with the committee to switch textbooks, said, "People have looked at it (the Lipsey and Steiner textbook) over the past few years and seen that it was getting better, so it is no big shock...
Eckstein said Lipsey and Steiner had vastly improved the macroeconomics section of their textbook, while Samuelson refused to correct the defects in his books pertaining to microeconomic theory...
...committee of Economics 10 section leaders voted unanimously over the summer to replace Samuelson's book with an economics textbook written by Richard G. Lipsey, a professor at Queen's University in Canada, and Peter O. Steiner, a professor at the University of Michigan...
Eckstein, who four years ago persuaded a similar committee to retain Samuelson's textbook after the committee had recommended dropping it, said this year's committee felt "very strongly" about switching to the Lipsey and Steiner textbook...
...proof of the pudding is in the teaching here," Eckstein said, adding he believes, "this is what competition is all about. Under the pressure of the market place the Lipsey and Steiner book has improved...