Showing posts with label Bob Murphy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Murphy. Show all posts

Monday, November 28, 2011

Lessons For The Young Economist By Robert Murphy

ISBN-10: 1933550880
ISBN-13: 978-1933550886

Fix Notes

Chapter 1:
The Scope And Boundaries of Economic Science:
  • Missing .: 2nd paragraph, first sentence

Why Study Economics:

  • Missing .: first paragraph, 2nd sentence.

Chapter 2:
After Second Box "Economists Can't Agree on the Right Medicine"

  • Missing .: "are either dishonest or sloppy These passions"

Chapter 3:

  • Extra space: First Box
  • "Murray Roth bard".
Chapter 4: Consumer Goods versus Producer Goods:
  • Missing .: End of 2nd paragraph
Chapter 6: How Prices Are Formed in Barter:
  • Extra Space: "Alice, Billy, and Christy
  • who arrive"
    • Made consistent with rest of the book (no space between dash and next word)
Chapter 9:
  • Missing space: Right after footnote 2. "profitable.2On"
Chapter 10: How Saving and Investment Increase An Economy's Future Output
  • Missing .: End of first paragraph
  • Missing .: Second paragraph, first sentence. "This is certainly a possibility For Example, if Bill"
Chapter 11: Example 1: Supply Reduction
  • Missing .: First paragraph, 2nd sentence. "thousand barrels per day What effect will this have"
Chapter 12:
  • Missing .: "the later money Market interest rates"
  • Missing .: "will pay back any borrowed money There are several"
  • Missing .: "debts and repayment history These companies sell"
Chapter 13:
  • Missing ,: "In short entrepreneurs estimate whether their proposed"
Chapter 15:
  • Missing .: "that occur in a system based on private property Indeed the very terminology"
  • Missing .: "not mere artifacts of a market economy The socialist planners"
Chaper 16:
  • Missing .: "socialist regimes in the 20th century Now it is true"
Chapter 18:
  • Missing space: right after footnote 1
  • Missing .: "eliminate the arbitrary disadvantages placed on particular sectors of the economy"
    • end of paragraph
Chapter 19:
  • Missing .: "apply among individuals in a pure market economy The case for free trade"
Chapter 20:
  • Missing space: Right after footnote 3
  • Missing space: Right after footnote 4
  • Extra space: "period— often called the “Noble Experiment”—mobsters"
  • Missing .: "as the heroin or cocaine trade is today The infamous"
Chapter 21:
  • Missing .: "from an initial barter economy and eventually become money In such a situation"
  • Missing .: "valued even before they had achieved their status as money In a pure market"
  • Missing .: "no single agency in charge of “the money” No, various people could own gold mines"
  • Missing .: "in the same way that the total amount of bicycles isn’t set by a government agency"
    • end of paragraph
  • Missing .: "very controversial to even define what we mean by “the price of money” Economists have devised"
  • Missing .: "all of these activities much more orderly Having an unsound fiat money is"
  • Missing .: "in its official mission of price stability But in terms of the whole"
Chapter 22:
  • Missing .: "create new money in the economy On the contrary if the government runs"
Chapter 23:
  • Extra space: "—whether a consumer or a capital good— entrepreneurs must use"
  • Missing .: "making cars that no one wants to buy No, the correct thing to do is allow"
Side Notes:
  • Should some of the tables be converted to HTML instead of images?
    • This would save on some space, and would leave formatting up to the epub reader. On my Nook some of the tables are very small and hard to read.
  • First letter of each chapter has:
    • I believe a much better way to do this would be to create a larger font class and apply that (sort of like what is done already in the other ebooks with Dropcap).
  • Should the "ind" class just be added into , instead of having (almost) every
    be class "ind"?
    • You can still override this with any special needs ("noind")
  • Inline formatting isn't very good practice.
    • For example:


      Why not create a class in the stylesheet called "chaptertitle" with the attributes of class "right" and "margin-top:30px"?
    • Another example:


      This is after almost every single chapter title (or subchapter title) in the first paragraph. Why not create a "firstparagraph" class, which includes margin-top:20px as an attribute?
      Or "marginfifty", "margintwenty", "marginthirty" class (with margin-top: ##px)?

      This can then be used multiple times throughout the document, and be able to be changed in just the stylesheet, instead of throughout the entire document.
Fixed EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8p6np1svuot731x

Original EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0v3ieg82r0um6w5
Original PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7bggj927yyoobmd

Chaos Theory By Robert Murphy

ISBN-10: 1933550651
ISBN-13: 978-1933550657

Fix Notes (these errors exist in the PDF as well):

Deleted extra Space after '-':
  • "Even such champions of laissez- faire as Milton Friedman and Ludwig von Mises"
  • "For example, it would be very convenient for customers if a deli were open twenty- four hours a day."
  • "and would even work in a society populated with self- interested but ultimately rational people."
  • "He would probably be unable to get a full- time job,"
  • "Under a government system, someone acquitted on a technicality gets off scot- free."
  • "Profit- hungry businesses will thereby produce buildings and infrastructure"
  • "If these preparations reduced the chance of foreign invasion to only, say, one- half of one percent per year,"

Extra spaces:

Chapter 1 - Footnote 9
  • "the agreement would be understood implicit ly."

Chapter 2 - Footnote 15
  • "he wouldn’t need any special “wartime powe rs.”"


Fixed EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hptqafotl8ai3p1

Original PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vqkdlr77xc47awc
Original EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?f5lbvpmwbdzkx3o