The Economic Way of Thinking or Purchasing and Supply Management

The Economic Way of Thinking

Author: Paul Heyn

The Economic Way of Thinking develops the basic principles of micro- and macroeconomic analysis, and employs them as tools rather than ends unto themselves. This updated text introduces students to a method of reasoning; to think like an economist through example and application. It even teaches by showing students how not to think, by exposing them to the errors implicit in much popular reasoning about economic events.

Booknews

A textbook for a one-semester survey course in general economics. It introduces students to the skills of economists, and points out errors of popular reasoning about economic events. The latest edition includes more theory and application, and less formal modeling. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Interesting textbook: Products Liability in a Nutshell or Geography and Trade

Purchasing and Supply Management

Author: W C Benton

This first edition text, written by Dr. W.C. Benton, the Dean's Distinguished Research Professor of Operations and Systems Management at Ohio State University, outlines the most current methods in purchasing and supply chain management. With his step-by-step approach, both students and professionals can gain analytical purchasing skills. Real case studies and exercises help students transform purchasing theory into purchasing practice and implementation. Some of the topics include purchasing business processes, price cost analysis, professional services, and transportation, global, and healthcare purchasing.

Dr. Benton has published more than one hundred articles in the areas of purchasing management, inventory control, supply chain management, quality assurance, and materials management. He has been ranked #1 out of 753 quality and quantity researchers in operations management, has served as a consultant for IBM, RCA, Frigidaire, and state Departments of Transportation, among others, and is the founder of the Purchasing and Supply Management Association (PSMA) at the Fisher College of Business.