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Welcome

Course name

Faculty name

YOUR COURSE MATERIALS

N. Gregory Mankiw’s

Principles of Economics, 4e

You will…

— be tested— receive homework

assignments— have reading assignments

…from these materials

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Mankiw 4/e

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