Alternate to Schweser Economics material

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I’ve been through Book 2 of Schweser material once and am revising it for the second time. Try as I may, I just cannot digest the language of the Economics material. It is far too convoluted and tries to compress a lot of things in less number of pages. I just finished reading Demand and Supply Analysis - The Firm and almost gave up in disgust.
I cannot positively finish any reading until I have a couple of cups of coffee. I need an alternate material for revising Economics. I have two choices for now - Greg Mankiw’s Economics Text or the CFA syllabus. Please advise which would be a better choice, or even any third alternative if possible.
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cfa syallabus..everything is explained pretty clearly there..i had economics in high school and i hated it because the books i used than didnt get anything into my mind and many of my uncleared eco concepts from back than are being cleared now..wish i used this book in high school
 
what I am doing is reading the schweser notes and refer back to CFAI curriculum if I can’t understand. But you are right, I also feel schweser alone for economics is not quite enough for me as well. I’m tempted to read the CFA curriculum through if i can squeeze out some more time.
 
Simply put, Greg Mankiw’s econ texts are awesome. I used his Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory text as an undergraduate student and his Principles of Economics text when I taught labs in grad school. You will be hard pressed to find a bigger Mankiw advocate on this forum. That being said, I think you will find the CFAI text to be of greater use in your preparation because its content is geared towards passing the Level I exam, whereas Mankiw’s Principles of Economics is a broad economics text. As for additional resources, Investopedia has free study guides for the the CFA exams. As far as free materials go, I would consider these top-notch.
Investopedia’s CFA Level I Study Guide
Greg Mankiw’s Blog
 
@ofthedivision17. I agree. I’m hesitant to use Mankiw (even though it is one of the BEST eco texts I’ve read) because there is a possibility of missing out some of the LOS prescribed for the exam. So I think I’ll stick to the CFAI texts.
While browsing through Investopedia, I found a few mistakes in the numerical examples (from quantitative methods), so I’m not too keen on using Investopedia as my sole reading material
 
Try lectures DVDs?
Everyone’s strengths and weaknesses are different but i honestly don’t find economics is a tough topic to digest, however, if you’re stuck on any particular theory or formula, i would just go to investopedia and look for definitiion. They usually have very detailed definitions and perhaps you understand it better there!
Worth a try since it’s FREE!
 
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@ofthedivision17. I agree. I’m hesitant to use Mankiw (even though it is one of the BEST eco texts I’ve read) because there is a possibility of missing out some of the LOS prescribed for the exam. So I think I’ll stick to the CFAI texts.
While browsing through Investopedia, I found a few mistakes in the numerical examples (from quantitative methods), so I’m not too keen on using Investopedia as my sole reading material
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Just to be clear, I would not recommend using Investopedia as your primary resource; however, it’s great for definitions and basic concepts. Sometimes it helps just to see something worded differently. Good luck!
EDIT: Mankiw does an excellent job of explaining the IS-LM model (much better than CFAI, in my opinion); however, IS-LM is a topic in Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (not Principles).
 
I enrolled for CFA Level 1 June 14 exams a couple of weeks back and was using Schweser for a base for my study. I have an Under Graduate Degree in Business and an MBA in Investment Management. But try as I might, I cannot for the life of me comprehend Schweser’s Econ Text. It is just way to compressed to explain any real concepts and just skims through the syllabus. I think I will have to use CFAI book completely for Econ and just solve Concept Checkers at the end of chapters from Schweser’s
 
Thats true for me too. I am not from finance background, and currently preparing for June level 1. I am not at all able to understand eco from schweser, CFAI book is much better. However, I have a doubt here. Reading from CFAI book would take more time. I heard from somewhere that since eco is small percent in the exam, its not worth spending so much time to read a whole CFAI book for it. How do you guys manage that?
 
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