AChicka, our business education department decided to buy the unbound version because it was cheaper, and "cheapness" on the part of the school has nothing to do with it. Unlike tuition costs, none of the cost of textbooks is absorbed by the school. It all goes straight into the students.
BigFrank, Micro/Macroeconomics is basically a sociology course that discusses the psychology and nature of goods and services exchange. That's an overly simplified explaination, but the course itself is relatively easy to understand. It's the semantics you're going to have to deal with the most. You'll be talking about Adam Smith early on and eventually start getting into how demand and supply interact. The science behind it is quite compelling, if you really care about how our economy actually works. To be quite honest, I really would have reccomended you take Macroeconomics first, as Micro is more about the individual details and gets into real situations rather than abstracting most of the text into generally-applied ideals. It's a little more blah, but it's easier to comprehend how large-scale markets really work.
Just about all economics teachers are anti-socialism due to the nature of their teaching and the system in which it is taught. You'll learn why capitalism is favored by a lot of people and what makes it ultimately work, not to mention what is needed to maintain it. Around two weeks of my Micro class was dedicated to Macro review, so when you take Macro, expect to hear some familiar ideas.
I think a good portion of Microeconomics is extolling the virtues of capitalism while speculating on its flaws and pointing out the means by which those flaws are being corrected. Ideas like wealth distribution (which is pretty crazy in the US), "externalities" (basically alluding to pollution and other negative side-effects of a totally free market) and several other things are going to get touched on. Mainly you're going to be talking about different systems within the current economic model, especially levesl of business and probably labor unions near the end.
All in all, it's an interesting subject on its own, but it can become quite tedious, and you're going to be seeing a shitload of graphs.
