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On the Use of Symbolic Computation in Undergraduate Microeconomics Instruction David W. Boyd Economic analysis and instruction, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, continue to employ more and more sophisticated mathematical methods, yet the technology typically used by students to solve economics problems ana- lytically has not advanced much beyond pencil and paper. In the last decade or so, powerful software programs, generally called symbolic processors or com- puter algebra systems, have become readily available for assistance in solving problems m