Undergraduate courses
Reading for New Students
The following reading list is designed to provide some information about the scope and content of Papers 1 to 4 of the Land Economy Tripos. It is not intended as a replacement to the detailed reading lists associated to individual lectures which are provided to students when they begin the course.
| Paper 1: Paper 1A. Economics I and Paper 1B. Economics II | |
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| Begg, D K H | Foundations of Economics. McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition 2006 (or earlier) and /or its parent text book. |
| Begg, D K H, Fischer, S and Dornbusch, R | Economics. McGraw-Hill, 8th Edition 2005 (or earlier). |
| Anthony, M and Biggs, N | Mathematics for Economics and Finance. Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
| Jacques, I | Mathematics for Economics and Business. Addison Wesley Longman, 3rd Edition 1999. |
| Paper 2: The public sector: institutional and legal frameworks | |
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| Turpin, C | British Government and the Constitution: Text, Cases and Materials. – Chapters 1 & 2. Butterworths, 6th edition 2007 |
| Riddell, P | Parliament under Blair Politicos, 2000 |
| Paper 3: Quantitative methods for land economy | |
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| Lind Marchal and Mason | Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics. McGraw Hill, 14th edition, 2010. |
| Speiegel, M R | Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Statistics. McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition 1999. |
| Edwards, J R and Mellett, H J | Introduction to Accounting. Paul Chapman, latest edition. |
| Paper 4: Land economy, development, and sustainability | |
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| Atkins, P, Simmons, I and Roberts, B | People, Land and Time. Arnold, 1998. |
| Gardiner, V and Matthews, H | The Changing Geography of the United Kingdom Routledge, 3rd edition 2000. |
| Rackham, O | The Illustrated History of the Countryside. Seven dials, 2000 (or any other edition). |