Introduction to Economic Analysis

{{short description|Free licence university microeconomics textbook}}

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| author = Preston McAfee
Tracy Lewis

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| subject = Microeconomics

| genre = Non-fiction

| publisher = Flat World Knowledge

| pub_date = 2009

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| isbn = 1-60049-000-X

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Introduction to Economic Analysis is a university microeconomics textbook by Caltech Professor Preston McAfee.{{Cite web|title=R. Preston McAfee|url=http://vita.mcafee.cc/|access-date=2023-02-19|website=vita.mcafee.cc|language=en}} It is available free of charge under Creative Commons licenseR. Preston McAfee, [http://www.mcafee.cc/Introecon/IEA.pdf Introduction to Economic Analysis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331052347/http://www.mcafee.cc/Introecon/IEA.pdf |date=2010-03-31 }}, {{ISBN|1-60049-000-X}} (an open source); under this "license that requires attribution, users can pick and choose chapters or integrate with their own material".[http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0121.shtml Preston McAfee named newest SPARC innovator] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706200115/http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0121.shtml |date=2010-07-06 }}, SPARC, January 21, 2009

Introduction to Economic Analysis was the first published complete textbook being openly available online. McAfee was named SPARC innovator for the year 2009 for making the book freely accessible.

A revised edition, coauthored with Tracy Lewis of the Fuqua School of Business, was published by Flat World Knowledge and is available online from McAfee's website.{{cite web|url=https://www.mc4f.ee/Papers/Introecon/ |title=Introduction to Economic Analysis |access-date=2023-07-02}} A further revision was produced by Donald J. Dale.