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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.

Long vacation reading list 2010
Paper 1: Paper 1A. Economics I and Paper 1B. Economics II
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
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
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
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).

Last updated 1 May, 2012