This thoroughly updated new edition of this title draws on a wealth of captivating applications to show readers how economics shed light on business, politics, world affairs, and everyday life.
With this edition, Eric Chiang begins a new era for his acclaimed principles of economics textbook. Formerly CoreEconomics and now titled Economics: Principles for a Changing World, the new edition is thoroughly contemporary, fully integrated print/technology resource that adapts to the way you want to teach. As always, this concise book focuses on the topics most often covered in the principles course, but with this edition, it offers a stronger emphasis than ever on helping students apply an economic way of thinking to the overwhelming flow of data we face every day. Economics: Principles for a Changing World is fully informed by Eric Chiang’s experiences teaching thousands of students worldwide, both in person and online. Developing the text, art, media, homework, and ancillaries simultaneously, Chiang translates those experiences into a cohesive approach that embodies the book’s founding principles:To use technology as a tool for learning—before lectures, during class, when doing homework, and at exam timeTo help students harness the data literacy they’ll need as consumers of economic informationTo provide a truly global perspective, showing the different ways people around the world confront economic problems
Principles of Macroeconomics for AP® Courses 2e covers the scope and sequence requirements for an Advanced Placement® macroeconomics course and is listed on the College Board's AP® example textbook list. The second edition includes many current examples and recent data from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), which are presented in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition was developed with significant feedback from current users. In nearly all chapters, it follows the same basic structure of the first edition. General descriptions of the edits are provided in the preface, and a chapter-by-chapter transition guide is available for instructors.
This is the third edition of the highly successful and well-regarded Australian adaptation by Nilss Olekalns of Bernanke & Frank's Principles of Macroeconomics. The authors take a rigorous, theoretical approach that is nonetheless easy to follow and logical! It is full of practical examples and in-chapter exercises that allow students to check their understanding of the important concepts as they work through the chapter. Background Briefing and Thinking as an Economist vignettes contextualise economic theory in the 'real world', and current data presents students with a snapshot of the economy as it is right now. This edition has been streamlined in response to market feedback: the chapters on competitive advantage and the open economy have been merged into a single chapter and the chapter that covers all the important elements of introductory macroeconomics is now online. Coverage of the Global Financial Crisis has also been integrated throughout this edition. This text is for first-year students of economics or those taking it as a first subject in macroeconomics.
Engaging authors, unbiased presentations of essential ideas, and a knack for revealing the 'invisible hand' of economics at work inform the thoroughly updated new edition of Modern Principles, drawing on a wealth of captivating applications to show readers how economics shed light on business, politics, world affairs, and everyday life.