Title: A Comparison of Readability of the Most Popular Principles of Macroeconomics Textbooks
Author(s) : Mojtaba Seyedian, Taihyeup Yi, Jeffrey Forrest
A Comparison of Readability of the Most Popular Principles of Macroeconomics Textbooks Selection of a textbook for an introductory macroeconomics course can be challenging. Many criteria may be considered in such decisions, including a textbook’s readability level. Using the Flesch-Kincaid readability index, this study analyzes the predicted readability of five popular introductory macroeconomics textbooks. T-tests are performed to determine whether significant differences exist between the textbooks. The study finds that one textbook is clearly more readable than all of the others. These findings can be useful to adopters and editors of introductory macroeconomics textbooks.