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Why are Economics textbooks so expensive?

Geoff Riley

1st September 2015

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This is a question asked by many thousands of students and teachers every year. For students at university, the annual cost of buying the recommended texts can be a sizeable percentage of their total study expenses. Teachers know full well that the latest paperback editions of textbooks are now so expensive that class sets are a luxury fewer and fewer schools can afford.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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