Using a unique modular format, this up-to-date survey presents current issues and core principles of mainstream economics in an intuitive manner that captures reader interest. It systematically combines this presentation with a wealth of relevant, up-to-date applications drawn from today's professional world. Discuss cover such timely issues as the World Bank; the International Monetary Fund; the International Labor Organization; economic growth; short-term instability; production, growth, and trade; political prices and elasticity; the international marketplace; the public sector; market failure; taxation and public choice; employment, output, and fiscal policy; and more. For those interested in any/all facets of mainstream economics.

Economics by Design: Principles and Issues (2nd Edition)

Ayers, Ronald M.

Collinge, Robert A.

Business & Money

Pearson/Education

Key Benefit: Written to help readers learn the language of economics, this book, packed with real-world examples and applications, helps bring the subject to life. It encourages an understanding of economic concepts in relation to personal, business, and social issues, allowing readers to analyze current world events and draw their own conclusions. Key Topics: This book explains the economic landscape by covering such topics as production and trade; supply and demand; pricing; unemployment; inflation; macroeconomics; fiscal policy; economic growth; money and monetary policy; microeconomics; consumer behavior; competition; monopoly and antitrust; labor markets; earnings and income distribution; market failure; and the global economy. Market: An excellent reference book for professionals in the field of economics.

Economics: Explore and Apply

PRENTICE/HALL

Microeconomics: Explore & Apply (Prentice Hall Series in Economics)

Economics

Written by the authors, contains chapter reviews; self-tests with true/false, fill-ins, true/false/explan, multiple-choice, and exercises requiring students to draw graphs or work out numerical calculations.

Economics by Design: Principles and Issues

Pearson College Div

For the 1-semester course in Macroeconomic Principles.This easy to read and accessible text engages students with familiar real-world examples and applications that bring economics to life. Ayers/Collinge use an Explore & Apply theme to show students how economics is a part of their everyday lives and how it can be a useful tool in making personal decisions and evaluating policy decisions. Macroeconomics: Explore & Apply, only 17 chapters, focuses on those topics that are at the heart of economics, making this text one of the briefest in the market. Examples of this focus include strong coverage of consumer and producer surplus; early coverage of AD/AS; a single isolated chapter on the Keynesian Cross (Ch. 10), which allows you to streamline your presentation and not overwhelm your students with excessive mathematical detail. This text is organized SHORT RUN FIRST.

Macroeconomics: Explore and Apply and Companion Website PLUS

Engaging and easy-to-read, this book uses real-world examples that bring economics to life--how it is an integral part of everyone's lives and how it can be a useful tool in both personal and business decision-making. One of the briefest books of its kind on the market (only 18 chapters), Microeconomics: Explore and Apply focuses on those topics that are at the heart of economics: following a strong introduction, this package covers consumer behavior, the firm and production, costs and profit-maximizing output, competition, monopolies and anti-trust laws, oligopoly, labor, earnings and income distribution, market failure and government action, and the global economy. This interactive, online, digital book will greatly enhance understanding of economics today, making it invaluable for anyone needing to gain more knowledge about this dynamic subject.

Microeconomics: Explore and Apply Active Book & Workbook Package

Engaging and easy-to-read, this book uses real-world examples that bring economics to life—how it is an integral part of everyone's lives and how it can be a useful tool in both personal and business decision-making. One of the briefest books of its kind on the market (only 17 chapters), Macroeconomics: Explore and Apply focuses on those topics that are at the heart of economics: following a strong introduction, this package covers the macro economy, national output, unemployment, inflation, aggregate supply and demand, incentives for productivity, money and monetary policy (banking, the federal reserve, and price stability), and the global economy, including trade and economic development. This interactive, online, digital book will greatly enhance understanding of economics today, making it invaluable for anyone needing to gain more knowledge about this dynamic subject.

Macroeconomics: Explore and Apply Active Book & Workbook Package

Computers & Technology

Macroeconomics: Explore and Apply Activebook 2.0: Workbook

For one-semester courses in Principles of Microeconomics. This easy to read, accessible, macro-first principles text engages students with familiar real-world examples and applications that bring economics to life. The authors follow an Explore & Apply theme to show students how economics is a part of their everyday lives and how it can be a useful tool in making personal decisions and evaluating policy decisions. If you want to teach with a principles text that brings out economic applications for the purpose of creating informed citizens and voters, preview Ayers/Collinge's Economics Enhanced Edition and their "Explore and Apply" approach. If you like to emphasize Consumer and Producer Surplus with early coverage, take a look at Chapter 4, as well as pages 79-99 in Ayers and Collinge. Do you incorporate critical thinking and writing in your course in effort to get students analyzing economics in the world today? If so, check out the Explore and Apply Section on Business Ethics Ch 7 or in virtually any Explore and Apply section. If you are interested in discussing the impact of the political process on government decision making see Chapter 16 on Public Choice.

Microeconomics: Explore and Apply

Written to help readers learn the language of economics, this book, packed with real-world examples and applications, helps bring the subject to life. It encourages an understanding of economic concepts in relation to personal, business, and social issues, allowing readers to analyze current world events and draw their own conclusions. This book explains the economic landscape by covering such topics as production and trade; supply and demand; pricing; unemployment; inflation; macroeconomics; fiscal policy; economic growth; money and monetary policy; microeconomics; consumer behavior; competition; monopoly and antitrust; labor markets; earnings and income distribution; market failure; and the global economy. An excellent reference book for professionals in the field of economics.

Economics: Explore and Apply and Companion Website PLUS

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