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AQA A-level Economics Book 1, Ray Powell and James Powell. Hodder Education, 2015, 279 pages, paperback, £24.99, ISBN 978-1471829789
With the A level Economics specification changes in 2015 comes the opportunity to review the choice of exam board, and which resources to use. Ray Powell's previous text for the AQA specification provides a combination that I found particularly successful. Powell's broadly narrative approach was enjoyed by the students. In this new book Ray Powell, now with son James, writes in a manner (as so many other popular texts do) which tends to be more like a revision book, with lists that are to be committed to memory. Of course some teachers and students just want the list with no extraneous material - but I have found that students who understand the broader picture need to spend less time rote learning later because the pieces of the jigsaw fit. For better or worse, the way of the world we...