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4.5
After 5 chapters, I am trying very hard to remain interested, but the text remains extremely boring and lengthy. Its concepts like Income Effect and Marginal Revenue Product of Labor are obvious. However, the text uses too much wording to describe these simple ideas. Chapter 3 with a few concepts requires over 60 pages. It repeats this inefficiency to describe simple graphs like a budget constraint slope and an indifference curve. And for such a relevant subject, the book hardly relates labor economics to the average person. Sure, it provides examples like federal work programs, but when you read it, you don't get a sense of how the labor markets really operate and how real people actually make decisions on work. The tone of the book is also very dry unlike a conversation because everything is all theory, theory, theory with no relevant examples.
