Dr. Mojtaba Seyedian
The resulting paper was presented at the 79th Annual Conference of the New York State Economics Association in October.
“A Comparison of Readability of the Most Popular Principles of Microeconomics Textbooks,” was co-authored by Professor Mojtaba Seyedian of the School of Business and Ryan Ameis a SUNY Fredonia junior Economics major from Clarence, NY.
Professor Seyedian noted that selection of a textbook for an introductory microeconomics course can be challenging. Many criteria may be considered in such decisions, including a textbook’s readability level. Using the Flesch-Kincaid readability index, the paper analyzed the predicted readability of five best-selling introductory microeconomics textbooks. T-tests were performed to determine whether significant differences exist between the textbooks.
The study found that the textbook by G. Mankiw is clearly more readable than all of the others. The findings could be useful to adopters and editors of introductory microeconomics textbooks.
