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• Coverage of inflation and monetary policy reflects the latest work by researchers and the Federal Reserve.
• Early coverage of long-run topics in chapters 3–7 reflects a commitment to modern macro theory, followed by an equally in-depth analysis of short-run issues in chapters 8–11.
• A unified framework uses a single model, built from a set of core economic ideas, to introduce the macroeconomic theories and concepts.
• A balanced presentation of both classical and Keynesian economics allows students to see the complete picture of economic theory, and allows flexibility for professors to teach the course their way.
• Real-world applications connect theory to practice, helping students make active use of the economic ideas in the text.
• Applications show students how theory is used to understand real-world macroeconomic issues.
• Boxes draw from current research, highlighting interesting new developments and topics in the field.
• In Touch with the Macroeconomy boxes ask students to find and interpret macroeconomic data, like economists would in their careers.
• Learning tools for students aid comprehension and application. Key diagrams in each chapter help students identify the most critical ideas. Summary tables and extensive end-of-chapter problem sets help to reinforce learning.
• Each new copy of the text comes with prepaid access to MyEconLab, Addison-Wesley’s online homework and tutorial solution. The Sixth Edition includes end-of-chapter problems which can be assigned in and automatically graded by MyEconLab. For more information, visit MyEconLab.

• New coauthor Dean Croushore formally joins the team after contributing to previous editions as a contributing author and a supplements author. Croushore served fourteen years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, twelve of which as the head of the macroeconomics section.
• New monetary and fiscal policy coverage includes:
• How the zero bound on nominal interest rates affected monetary policy in Japan, Switzerland, and the United States (chapter 11).
• The U.S. disinflation of the 1980s and 1990s (chapter 12).
• The role of communication in monetary policy (chapter 14).
• Recent proposals to reform the U.S. income tax system to save the U.S. social security system (chapter 15).
• New labor market issues include:
• A discussion of a comparison of U.S. and European labor markets (chapter 3)
• The impact of globalization (chapter 5).
• The jobless recovery following the 2001 recession (chapter 8).
• Measurement of the natural rate of unemployment (chapter 12).
• New appendices to the business cycle chapters (chapters 9–11) show examples of numerical exercises using the model equations, a discussion of the jobless recovery from the 2001 recession (chapter 8), a box on DSE models and the classical–Keynesian debate (chapter 11).
• New growth-related topics include a discussion of the productivity miracle of the 1990s and the growth of China’s economy.
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PART 1 INTRODUCTION

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Chapter 1 Introduction to Macroeconomics
1.1 What Macroeconomics Is About
1.2 What Macroeconomists Do
1.3 Why Macroeconomists Disagree

Chapter 2 The Measurement and Structure of the National Economy
2.1 National Income Accounting: The Measurement of Production, Income, and Expenditure
2.2 Gross Domestic Product
2.3 Saving and Wealth
2.4 Real GDP, Price Indexes, and Inflation
2.5 Interest Rates

PART 2 LONG-RUN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

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Chapter 3 Productivity, Output, and Employment
3.1 How Much Does the Economy Produce? The Production Function
3.2 The Demand for Labor
3.3 The Supply of Labor
3.4 Labor Market Equilibrium
3.5 Unemployment
3.6 Relating Output and Unemployment: Okun’s Law

Chapter 4 Consumption, Saving, and Investment
4.1 Consumption and Saving
4.2 Investment
4.3 Goods Market Equilibrium

Chapter 5 Saving and Investment in the Open Economy
5.1 Balance of Payments Accounting
5.2 Goods Market Equilibrium in an Open Economy
5.3 Saving and Investment in a Small Open Economy
5.4 Saving and Investment in Large Open Economies
5.5 Fiscal Policy and the Current Account

Chapter 6 Long-Run Economic Growth
6.1 The Sources of Economic Growth
6.2 Growth Dynamics: The Solow Model
6.3 Government Policies to Raise Long-Run Living Standards

Chapter 7 The Asset Market, Money, and Prices
7.1 What Is Money?
7.2 Portfolio Allocation and the Demand for Assets
7.3 The Demand for Money
7.4 Asset Market Equilibrium
7.5 Money Growth and Inflation

PART 3 BUSINESS CYCLES AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY

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Chapter 8 Business Cycles
8.1 What Is a Business Cycle?
8.2 The American Business Cycle: The Historical Record
8.3 Business Cycle Facts
8.4 Business Cycle Analysis: A Preview

Chapter 9 The IS-LM/AD-AS Model: A General Framework for Macroeconomic Analysis
9.1 The FE Line: Equilibrium in the Labor Market
9.2 The IS Curve: Equilibrium in the Goods Market
9.3 The LM Curve: Asset Market Equilibrium
9.4 General Equilibrium in the Complete IS–LM Model
9.5 Price Adjustment and the Attainment of General Equilibrium
9.6 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply

Chapter 10 Classical Business Cycle Analysis: Market-Clearing Macroeconomics
10.1 Business Cycles in the Classical Model
10.2 Money in the Classical Model
10.3 The Misperceptions Theory and the Nonneutrality of Money

Chapter 11 Keynesianism: The Macroeconomics of Wage and Price Rigidity
11.1 Real-Wage Rigidity
11.2 Price Stickiness
11.3 Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Keynesian Model
11.4 The Keynesian Theory of Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Stabilization

PART 4 MACROECONOMIC POLICY: ITS ENVIRONMENT AND INSTITUTIONS

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Chapter 12 Unemployment and Inflation
12.1 Unemployment and Inflation: Is There a Trade-Off?
12.2 The Problem of Unemployment
12.3 The Problem of Inflation

Chapter 13 Exchange Rates, Business Cycles, and Macroeconomic Policy in the Open Economy
13.1 Exchange Rates
13.2 How Exchange Rates Are Determined: A Supply-and-Demand Analysis
13.3 The IS–LM Model for an Open Economy
13.4 Macroeconomic Policy in an Open Economy with Flexible Exchange Rates
13.5 Fixed Exchange Rates

Chapter 14 Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System
14.1 Principles of Money Supply Determination
14.2 Monetary Control in the United States
14.3 The Conduct of Monetary Policy: Rules Versus Discretion

Chapter 15 Government Spending and Its Financing
15.1 The Government Budget: Some Facts and Figures
15.2 Government Spending, Taxes, and the Macroeconomy
15.3 Government Deficits and Debt
15.4 Deficits and Inflation

Appendix A Some Useful Analytical Tools

Preface

Andrew B. Abel is the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor of Finance at the Wharton School and professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his AB summa cum laude from Princeton University and holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abel has published extensively on fiscal policy, capital formation, monetary policy, asset pricing, and social security—as well as serving on the editorial boards of numerous journals. He has been honored as the Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a recipient of the John Kenneth Galbraith Award for teaching excellence. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series.

Ben S. Bernanke Previously the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, Ben Bernanke received both the Allyn Young Prize for best Harvard undergraduate economics thesis and the John H. Williams prize for outstanding senior in the economics department. He went on to earn his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he has been honored as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Currently, he is Chairman and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Dean Croushore is an associate professor of economics and Rigsby Fellow at the University of Richmond. Croushore served for fourteen years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, twelve of which as the head of the macroeconomics section. He has taught previously at Penn State University, Temple University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and Princeton University.

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  Student Value Edition for Macroeconomics plus MyEconlab in CourseCompass, Macroeconomics plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit, 6/E
  Abel, Bernanke & Croushore
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package | Estimated Availability : 12/01/2008
  ISBN-10: 0321620127 | ISBN-13: 9780321620125
  Suggested retail price: $107.53  Net price: $80.65  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For today’s student on the go, this portable version is three-hole punched so students can take only what they need to class, incorporate their own notes, and save money! Each Books à la Carte text arrives with a laminated study card, perfect for students to use when preparing for exams, plus access to MyEconLab^®.
  
  MyEconLab in CourseCompass^™ provides additional optional customization and communication tools. Instructors who teach distance-learning courses or very large lecture sections find the CourseCompass format useful because they can upload course documents and assignments, customize the order of chapters, and use communication features such as Digital Dropbox and Discussion Board.
  
  View a demo of MyEconLab. For more information about MyEconLab or to request an Instructor Access Code, visit MyEconLab.

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  Student Value Edition for Macroeconomics, plus MyEconlab, Macroeconomics plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit, 6/E
  Abel, Bernanke & Croushore
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321620119 | ISBN-13: 9780321620118
  Suggested retail price: $113.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $85.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For today’s student on the go, this portable version is three-hole punched so students can take only what they need to class, incorporate their own notes, and save money! Each Books à la Carte text arrives with a laminated study card, perfect for students to use when preparing for exams, plus access to MyEconLab^®.
  
  View a demo of MyEconLab. For more information about MyEconLab or to request an Instructor Access Code, visit MyEconLab.
  

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  eBook for Macroeconomics, 6/E
  Abel & Bernanke
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Electronic Book | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321455169 | ISBN-13: 9780321455161
  Online purchase price: $35.00
  Brief Description

  

  The integrated eText in MyEconLab allows students access to their textbook on any computer. The eText comes complete animated figures, as well as other learning aids.
  
  The eText is not sold separately; it is an additional purchase for users who have already purchased access to the basic MyEconLab course.
  

This title is a member of the The MyEconLab Series Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the MyEconLab Series Series page.

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  Economics, 3/E
  Hubbard & O'Brien
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1176 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013602176X | ISBN-13: 9780136021766
  Suggested retail price: $194.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $145.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For the two-semester Principles of Economics courses at 4-year & 2-year colleges and universities.

   

  Still Keeping it Real and More Accessible Than Ever!

  Hubbard & O'Brien keeps it real in the third edition with updated examples, data, and end-of-chapter problems, providing the most up-to-date discussion on the recession/financial crisis and the monetary and fiscal policy response.

   

  Hubbard & O'Brien is the only book that motivates students to learn economics through real business examples.

  The #1 question students of economics ask themselves is:  "Why am I here, and will I ever use this?"  Hubbard/O'Brien answer this question by demonstrating that real businesses use economics to make real decisions daily.  This is motivating to all students, whether they are business majors or not.  All students can relate to businesses they encounter in their everyday lives.  Whether they open an art studio, do social work, trade on Wall Street, work for the government, or bartend at the local pub, students will benefit from understanding the economic forces behind their work.

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  Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit, Alternate Edition, The
  Mishkin
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0321456475 | ISBN-13: 9780321456472
  Suggested retail price: $180.00  Net price: $135.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  If your course begins before 8/1/06, you can use Mishkin's Seventh Edition Update by clicking here. Starting in August 2006, the Alternate Edition will be available, and will come packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor and offers students book-specific practice, online homework, access to the eBook, and learning resources. (For that ISBN, click here.) Professors who wish to use advanced course management should order the ISBN above to receive the book packaged with MyEconLab in CourseCompass.
  
  

  Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets heralded a dramatic shift in the teaching of the money and banking course in its first edition, and today it is still setting the standard. By applying an analytical framework to the patient, stepped-out development of models, Frederic Mishkin draws students into a deeper understanding of modern monetary theory, banking, and policy. His landmark combination of common sense applications with current, real-world events provides authoritative, comprehensive coverage in an informal tone students appreciate. Mishkin’s previous post as Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lends an insiders-view that helps to demystify this key institution for students.
  
  

  This Alternate Edition of The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets is the ideal choice for courses with limited emphasis on monetary theory—due to a prerequisite course in intermediate macroeconomics or a business school focus.

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  Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit, The, 8/E
  Mishkin
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321451236 | ISBN-13: 9780321451231
  Suggested retail price: $180.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $135.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  If your course begins before 8/1/06, click here. Starting in August 2006, this text will come packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor and offers students book-specific practice, online homework, access to the eBook, and learning resources. (For that ISBN, click here.) Professors who wish to use advanced course management should order the ISBN above to receive the book packaged with MyEconLab in CourseCompass.
  
  

  Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets heralded a dramatic shift in the teaching of the money and banking course in its first edition, and today it is still setting the standard. By applying an analytical framework to the patient, stepped-out development of models, Frederic Mishkin draws students into a deeper understanding of modern monetary theory, banking, and policy. His landmark combination of common sense applications with current, real-world events provides authoritative, comprehensive coverage in an informal tone students appreciate. Mishkin’s previous post as Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lends an insiders-view that helps to demystify this key institution for students.

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  Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit, Alternate Edition, The
  Mishkin
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321427807 | ISBN-13: 9780321427809
  Suggested retail price: $173.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $130.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets heralded a dramatic shift in the teaching of the money and banking course in its first edition, and today it is still setting the standard. By applying an analytical framework to the patient, stepped-out development of models, Frederic Mishkin draws students into a deeper understanding of modern monetary theory, banking, and policy. His landmark combination of common sense applications with current, real-world events provides authoritative, comprehensive coverage in an informal tone students appreciate. Mishkin’s previous post as Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lends an insiders-view that helps to demystify this key institution for students.
  
  

  This Alternate Edition of The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets is the ideal choice for courses with limited emphasis on monetary theory—due to a prerequisite course in intermediate macroeconomics or a business school focus.

   

  This text comes packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor. With this, students can access practice problems for each chapter in the book, graphing questions, learning resources, and live tutoring. Professors who plan to use advanced course management online should order the book with MyEconLab in CourseCompass. View ‘Alternate Versions’ of this book on the web catalog page, or contact your local representative for details.

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  Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit, The, 8/E
  Mishkin
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321415051 | ISBN-13: 9780321415059
  Suggested retail price: $173.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $130.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets heralded a dramatic shift in the teaching of the money and banking course in its first edition, and today it is still setting the standard. By applying an analytical framework to the patient, stepped-out development of models, Frederic Mishkin draws students into a deeper understanding of modern monetary theory, banking, and policy. His landmark combination of common sense applications with current, real-world events provides authoritative, comprehensive coverage in an informal tone students appreciate. Mishkin’s previous post as Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lends an insiders-view that helps to demystify this key institution for students.

   

  This text comes packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor. With this, students can access practice problems for each chapter in the book, graphing questions, learning resources, and live tutoring. Professors who plan to use advanced course management online should order the book with MyEconLab in CourseCompass. View ‘Alternate Versions’ of this book on the web catalog page, or contact your Pearson representative for details.

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  Economics plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit, 8/E
  Parkin
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321487052 | ISBN-13: 9780321487056
  Suggested retail price: $200.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $150.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The leading economists today started out as students taking the Principles course. Parkin writes in a way that reaches out to all students, encouraging them to think like economists from the first week of class. Economics provides a serious, analytical approach to the discipline by introducing the main ideas and then developing those ideas with the latest research, policy, and data. The result is that students learn to apply economics the way real economists do, by evaluating the decisions in their personal, academic, and professional lives.
  
  The Eighth Edition takes a new approach to modern macroeconomic theory with an earlier integration of international topics that gives an accurate picture of how theory is used to guide and evaluate macroeconomic policy. The microeconomics chapters include the latest research, and incorporate a unifying theme related to the tension between self- and social-interest.
  
  Starting in this edition, MyEconLab now includes all of Parkin’s end-of-chapter problems so that assignments can be automatically graded online. MyEconLab in CourseCompass™ provides additional optional customization and communication tools. Instructors who teach distance-learning courses or very large lecture sections find the CourseCompass™ format useful because they can upload course documents and assignments, customize the order of chapters, and use communication features such as Digital Dropbox and Discussion Board.
  
  View a demo of MyEconLab. For more information about MyEconLab in CourseCompass™, or to request an Instructor Access Code, visit MyEconLab.
  

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  Economics plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit
  Leeds, von Allmen & Schiming
  ©2006 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032145653X | ISBN-13: 9780321456533
  Suggested retail price: $200.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $150.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  If your course begins before 8/1/06, click here. Starting in August 2006, this text will come packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor and offers students book-specific practice, online homework, access to the eBook, and learning resources. (For that ISBN, click here.) Professors who wish to use advanced course management should order the ISBN above to receive the book packaged with MyEconLab in CourseCompass.

   

  Economics offers a novel approach to the principles of economics course based on three pedagogical principles:

  • Ongoing assessment is an essential component of the learning process;
  • Students understand concepts better when they are presented in the context of engaging stories;
  • Students remember more when they connect concepts to what they see or read in the news and what they experience in their every day life.

  Quality assessment permeates every component of Economics, the first textbook to offer a class-tested test bank. MyEconLab’s innovative online homework and tutorial system, with its innovative computer-grade graphing exercises, is tightly linked to the text.

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  Economics plus MyEconLab plus eBook 2-semester Student Access Kit, 8/E
  Parkin
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package; 888 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321423003 | ISBN-13: 9780321423009
  Suggested retail price: $200.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $150.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The leading economists today started out as students taking the Principles course. Parkin writes in a way that reaches out to all students, encouraging them to think like economists from the first week of class. Economics provides a serious, analytical approach to the discipline by introducing the main ideas and then developing those ideas with the latest research, policy, and data. The result is that students learn to apply economics the way real economists do, by evaluating the decisions in their personal, academic, and professional lives.
  
  The Eighth Edition takes a new approach to modern macroeconomic theory with an earlier integration of international topics that gives an accurate picture of how theory is used to guide and evaluate macroeconomic policy. The microeconomics chapters include the latest research, and incorporate a unifying theme related to the tension between self- and social-interest.
  
  Starting in this edition, MyEconLab now includes all of Parkin’s end-of-chapter problems so that assignments can be automatically graded online.
  

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  Economics Today plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit, 14/E
  Miller
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package; 924 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321481321 | ISBN-13: 9780321481320
  Suggested retail price: $200.67  Net price: $150.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Students learn best when they see a concept applied in the context of examples they understand. That is why Economics Today is so successful in classrooms where students hail from a wide variety of majors, backgrounds, and ages. An abundance of relentlessly current, news-worthy examples motivate every chapter and reflect the interests of today’s diverse student population. In this new edition, Miller has responded to the way students use their textbook as a study tool by incorporating new pedagogy to help students study effectively and by giving them more opportunities to practice.
  
  MyEconLab now includes a subset of Miller’s end-of-chapter problems so that assignments can be automatically graded online. MyEconLab in CourseCompass™ provides additional optional customization and communication tools. Instructors who teach distance-learning courses or very large lecture sections find the CourseCompass™ format useful because they can upload course documents and assignments, customize the order of chapters, and use communication features such as Digital Dropbox and Discussion Board.
  
  View a demo of MyEconLab. For more information about MyEconLab in CourseCompass™, or to request an Instructor Access Code, visit MyEconLab.
  

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  Economics Today plus MyEconLab plus eBook 2-semester Student Access Kit, 14/E
  Miller
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package; 924 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321422341 | ISBN-13: 9780321422347
  Suggested retail price: $198.67  Net price: $149.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Students learn best when they see a concept applied in the context of examples they understand. That is why Economics Today is so successful in classrooms where students hail from a wide variety of majors, backgrounds, and ages. An abundance of relentlessly current, news-worthy examples motivate every chapter and reflect the interests of today’s diverse student population. In this new edition, Miller has responded to the way students use their textbook as a study tool by incorporating new pedagogy to help students study effectively and by giving them more opportunities to practice. 

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  Economics Today: The Macro View plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit, 14/E
  Miller
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321483022 | ISBN-13: 9780321483027
  Suggested retail price: $154.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $115.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Students learn best when they see a concept applied in the context of examples they understand. That is why Economics Today: The Macro View is so successful in classrooms where students hail from a wide variety of majors, backgrounds, and ages. An abundance of relentlessly current, news-worthy examples motivate every chapter and reflect the interests of today’s diverse student population. In this new edition, Miller has responded to the way students use their textbook as a study tool by incorporating new pedagogy to help students study effectively and by giving them more opportunities to practice.
  
  MyEconLab now includes a subset of Miller’s end-of-chapter problems so that assignments can be automatically graded online. MyEconLab in CourseCompass™ provides additional optional customization and communication tools. Instructors who teach distance-learning courses or very large lecture sections find the CourseCompass™ format useful because they can upload course documents and assignments, customize the order of chapters, and use communication features such as Digital Dropbox and Discussion Board.
  
  View a demo of MyEconLab. For more information about MyEconLab in CourseCompass™, or to request an Instructor Access Code, visit MyEconLab.
  

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  Economics Today: The Macro View plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit, 14/E
  Miller
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package; 604 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321421442 | ISBN-13: 9780321421449
  Suggested retail price: $154.33  Net price: $115.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Students learn best when they see a concept applied in the context of examples they understand. That is why Economics Today: The Macro View is so successful in classrooms where students hail from a wide variety of majors, backgrounds, and ages. An abundance of relentlessly current, news-worthy examples motivate every chapter and reflect the interests of today’s diverse student population. In this new edition, Miller has responded to the way students use their textbook as a study tool by incorporating new pedagogy to help students study effectively and by giving them more opportunities to practice. 

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  Economics Today: The Micro View plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit, 14/E
  Miller
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package; 604 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321484223 | ISBN-13: 9780321484222
  Suggested retail price: $154.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $115.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Students learn best when they see a concept applied in the context of examples they understand. That is why Economics Today: The Micro View is so successful in classrooms where students hail from a wide variety of majors, backgrounds, and ages. An abundance of relentlessly current, news-worthy examples motivate every chapter and reflect the interests of today’s diverse student population. In this new edition, Miller has responded to the way students use their textbook as a study tool by incorporating new pedagogy to help students study effectively and by giving them more opportunities to practice.
  
  MyEconLab now includes a subset of Miller’s end-of-chapter problems so that assignments can be automatically graded online. MyEconLab in CourseCompass™ provides additional optional customization and communication tools. Instructors who teach distance-learning courses or very large lecture sections find the CourseCompass™ format useful because they can upload course documents and assignments, customize the order of chapters, and use communication features such as Digital Dropbox and Discussion Board.
  
  View a demo of MyEconLab. For more information about MyEconLab in CourseCompass™, or to request an Instructor Access Code, visit MyEconLab.
  

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  Economics Today: The Micro View plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit, 13/E
  Miller
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321450922 | ISBN-13: 9780321450920
  Suggested retail price: $139.33  Net price: $104.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  If your course begins before 8/1/06, click here. Starting in August 2006, this text will come packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor and offers students book-specific practice, online homework, access to the eBook, and learning resources. (For that ISBN, click here.) Professors who wish to use advanced course management should order the ISBN above to receive the book packaged with MyEconLab in CourseCompass.
  
  

  Roger Miller believes that students learn best when they are motivated, and that motivation comes when they connect an idea to their day-to-day lives. That is why every chapter of Economics Today is packed with thought-provoking applications that give immediate, common-sense reinforcement to economic concepts. From international to local, corporate to consumer, policy to personal, these examples spark lively discussion both in and out of the classroom. The result is that students gain a natural understanding of economic theory and analysis, and they learn to use economic reasoning in their everyday decisions.

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  Economics Today: The Micro View plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit, 14/E
  Miller
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package; 604 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321425065 | ISBN-13: 9780321425065
  Suggested retail price: $154.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $115.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Students learn best when they see a concept applied in the context of examples they understand. That is why Economics Today: The Micro View is so successful in classrooms where students hail from a wide variety of majors, backgrounds, and ages. An abundance of relentlessly current, news-worthy examples motivate every chapter and reflect the interests of today’s diverse student population. In this new edition, Miller has responded to the way students use their textbook as a study tool by incorporating new pedagogy to help students study effectively and by giving them more opportunities to practice. 

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  Economics, Updated Edition, 2/E
  Hubbard & O'Brien
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1168 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136092055 | ISBN-13: 9780136092056
  Suggested retail price: $194.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $145.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For the two-semester Principles of Economics courses at 4-year & 2-year colleges and universities.
  
  

  Hubbard & O'Brien is the only book that motivates students to learn economics through real business examples.   

   

  The updated edition offers insights into the exciting economic topics that are in the news and affecting all of us today—like the election, the housing market, the impact of the current oil situation, current challenges to airlines, debates over trade policy, and consequences of the “amazing shrinking dollar.”
  

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  Economics: Principles, Applications, and Tools, 5/E
  O'Sullivan, Sheffrin & Perez
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 768 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013223565X | ISBN-13: 9780132235655
  Suggested retail price: $194.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $145.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  O’Sullivan/Sheffrin/Perez 5e uses questions to drive student interest, then applications to illustrate concepts, and then tools to practice economic concepts.

   

  Students come into their first Economics course thinking they will better understand the economy around them; the choices our government, international governments, businesses, and individuals make.  Unfortunately, many don’t get answers to those questions when they complete the course.

   

  O/S/P uses chapter opening questions, applications that explain and tie to those questions throughout the chapter, and chapter ending tools to help students actively internalize economics.

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  Economics: Private Markets and Public Choice plus MyEconLab plus eBook 2-semester Student Access Kit, 7/E
  Ekelund, Ressler & Tollison
  ©2006 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package; 797 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032145779X | ISBN-13: 9780321457790
  Suggested retail price: $198.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $149.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  This text comes packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor. With this, students can access practice problems for each chapter in the book, graphing questions, learning resources, and live tutoring. Professors who plan to use advanced course management online should order the book with MyEconLab in CourseCompass. View ‘Alternate Versions’ of this book on the web catalog page, or contact your local representative for details.
  
  

  Maximizing happiness means more than maximizing wealth, and yet many students assume economists only care about "the bottom line." Economics: Private Markets and Public Choice emphasizes that economics is, at its base, about our society's well-being and our individual happiness in all forms, not just profit. The authors teach students to apply economic concepts not only to key policy decisions like taxes, inflation, and free trade, but also to personal decisions such as household finance, marriage, and career choices.
  
  

  The Seventh Edition is enhanced by MyEconLab, the online homework system featuring automatically graded graphing problems and proven tutorial tools. Access to MyEconLab comes with every new textbook at no additional cost to the student.

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  Essential Foundations of Economics, 5/E
  Bade & Parkin
  ©2011 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 624 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013800823X | ISBN-13: 9780138008239
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  A practice-oriented learning system that breaks the traditional textbook mold.
  
  To help the student focus on the most important concepts—and effectively practice application of those concepts—Essential Foundations of Economics is structured around a Checklist/Checkpoint system. The result is a patient, confidence-building textbook that prepares the student to use economics in their everyday life, regardless of what their future career will be.
  
  The fifth edition contains well-targeted content adjustments that offer more examples, dynamic chapter openers, and applications containing compelling content and real-world issues.
  

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  Essentials of Economics, 2/E
  Hubbard & O'Brien
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 720 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136086233 | ISBN-13: 9780136086239
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Net price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For Survey of Economics courses at 4-year & 2-year colleges and universities
  
  Hubbard & O'Brien is the only book that motivates students to learn economics through real business examples.  
  
  

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  Essentials of Economics
  Hubbard & O'Brien
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 656 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132309246 | ISBN-13: 9780132309240
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Net price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Hubbard & O'Brien is the only book that motivates students to learn economics through real business examples.   

  The #1 question students of economics ask themselves is: "Why am I here, and will I ever use this"?  Hubbard & O'Brien answer this question by demonstrating that real businesses use economics to make real decisions daily.  This is motivating to all students, whether they are business majors or not.  All students can relate to businesses they encounter in their everyday lives.   Whether they open an art studio, do social work, trade on Wall Street, work for the government, or bartend at the local pub, students will benefit from understanding the economic forces behind their work. 

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  Foundations of Economics plus MyEconLab plus eBook 2-semester Student Access Kit, 3/E
  Bade & Parkin
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321397886 | ISBN-13: 9780321397881
  Suggested retail price: $198.67  Net price: $149.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Research shows the best way to learn is to put concepts to work with repeated practice. For this reason, frequent, quality practice is the cornerstone of the tightly-knit Foundations of Economics learning system, building student success in economics by doing economics.
  
  

  First, student attention is focused on what to study through a Checklist of clearly defined core concepts in each chapter. Section by section, Checkpoints demonstrate how to study by stepping through a Practice Problem and then engaging students with a parallel Exercise. In addition, the Third Edition addresses why we study economics through a new feature, Reality Check. With Foundations of Economics, students are taught to view economics as a skill to be honed rather than a collection of topics to be memorized.

   

  This text comes packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor. With this, students can access practice problems for each chapter in the book, graphing questions, learning resources, and live tutoring. Professors who plan to use advanced course management online should order the book with MyEconLab in CourseCompass. View ‘Alternate Versions’ of this book on the web catalog page, or contact your local representative for details.

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  Foundations of Macroeconomics, 5/E
  Bade & Parkin
  ©2011 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 576 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136125832 | ISBN-13: 9780136125839
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Economics is a subject you learn by doing. Foundations of Macroeconomics breaks the mold of a traditional text and becomes a practice-oriented learning system. Each chapter uses a Checklist to focus students’ attention on the most important key concepts. A discrete section introduces each of these core concepts and is immediately followed by a Checkpoint, a full page of practice that applies the concept. The result is a patient, confidence-building approach that prepares students to use economics in their lives, regardless of what their future career will be.
  
  Many instructors turn to online assessment in MyEconLab as a way to encourage practice without needing to grade homework by hand. Bade and Parkin have written online versions of their Checkpoints and end-of-chapter problems in MyEconLab so that there is complete synchronicity between the content online and in the text.

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  Foundations of Microeconomics, 5/E
  Bade & Parkin
  ©2011 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 576 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136123139 | ISBN-13: 9780136123132
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Economics is a subject you learn by doing. Foundations of Microeconomics breaks the mold of a traditional text and becomes a practice-oriented learning system. Each chapter uses a Checklist to focus students’ attention on the most important key concepts. A discrete section introduces each of these core concepts and is immediately followed by a Checkpoint, a full page of practice that applies the concept. The result is a patient, confidence-building approach that prepares students to use economics in their lives, regardless of what their future career will be.
  
  Many instructors turn to online assessment in MyEconLab as a way to encourage practice without needing to grade homework by hand. Bade and Parkin have written online versions of their Checkpoints and end-of-chapter problems in MyEconLab so that there is complete synchronicity between the content online and in the text.

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  Macroeconomics, 7/E
  Abel, Bernanke & Croushore
  ©2011 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 672 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136114520 | ISBN-13: 9780136114529
  Suggested retail price: $173.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $130.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Abel, Bernanke, and Croushore present macroeconomic theory in a way that prepares students to analyze real macroeconomic data used by policy makers and researchers. With a balanced treatment of both classical and Keynesian economics, the comprehensive coverage makes it easy for instructors to align chapters to fit their own syllabi.
  
  Students in this course often struggle to see how the macroeconomic models compare to one another, and fit into the big picture. This text uses a unified approach based on a single economics model that provides students with a clear understanding of macroeconomics and its classical and Keynesian assumptions.
  
  

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  Macroeconomics, 3/E
  Hubbard & O'Brien
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 720 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136021824 | ISBN-13: 9780136021827
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For the one-semester Principles of Macroeconomics courses at 4-year & 2-year colleges and universities.

   

  Still Keeping it Real and More Accessible Than Ever!

  Hubbard & O'Brien keeps it real in the third edition with updated examples, data, and end-of-chapter problems, providing the most up-to-date discussion on the recession/financial crisis and the monetary and fiscal policy response.

   

  Hubbard & O'Brien is the only book that motivates students to learn economics through real business examples.

  The #1 question students of economics ask themselves is:  "Why am I here, and will I ever use this?"  Hubbard/O'Brien answer this question by demonstrating that real businesses use economics to make real decisions daily.  This is motivating to all students, whether they are business majors or not.  All students can relate to businesses they encounter in their everyday lives.  Whether they open an art studio, do social work, trade on Wall Street, work for the government, or bartend at the local pub, students will benefit from understanding the economic forces behind their work.

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  Macroeconomics, 2/E
  Hubbard & O'Brien
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 704 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0132356694 | ISBN-13: 9780132356695
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Net price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Hubbard & O'Brien is the only book that motivates students to learn economics through real business examples.   

   

  The #1 question students of economics ask themselves is: "Why am I here, and will I ever use this"?  Hubbard & O'Brien answer this question by demonstrating that real businesses use economics to make real decisions daily.  This is motivating to all students, whether they are business majors or not.  All students can relate to businesses they encounter in their everyday lives.   Whether they open an art studio, do social work, trade on Wall Street, work for the government, or bartend at the local pub, students will benefit from understanding the economic forces behind their work.

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  Macroeconomics plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eText Student Access Kit, 8/E
  Parkin
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321468864 | ISBN-13: 9780321468864
  Suggested retail price: $146.07  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $109.55  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The leading economists today started out as students taking the Principles course. Parkin writes in a way that reaches out to all students, encouraging them to think like economists from the first week of class. Macroeconomics provides a serious, analytical approach to the discipline by introducing the main ideas and then developing those ideas with the latest research, policy, and data. The result is that students learn to apply economics the way real economists do, by evaluating the decisions in their personal, academic, and professional lives.
  
  The Eighth Edition takes a new approach to modern macroeconomic theory with an earlier integration of international topics that gives an accurate picture of how theory is used to guide and evaluate macroeconomic policy. The microeconomics chapters include the latest research, and incorporate a unifying theme related to the tension between self- and social-interest.
  
  Starting in this edition, MyEconLab now includes all of Parkin’s end-of-chapter problems so that assignments can be automatically graded online. MyEconLab in CourseCompass™ provides additional optional customization and communication tools. Instructors who teach distance-learning courses or very large lecture sections find the CourseCompass™ format useful because they can upload course documents and assignments, customize the order of chapters, and use communication features such as Digital Dropbox and Discussion Board.
  
  View a demo of MyEconLab. For more information about MyEconLab in CourseCompass™, or to request an Instructor Access Code, visit MyEconLab.

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  Macroeconomics, Updated Edition, 2/E
  Hubbard & O'Brien
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 720 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013609208X | ISBN-13: 9780136092087
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For the one semester Principles of Macroeconomics courses at 4-year & 2-year colleges and universities.
  
  

  Hubbard & O'Brien is the only book that motivates students to learn economics through real business examples.   

  
  

  The updated edition offers insights into the exciting economic topics that are in the news and affecting all of us today—like the election, the housing market, the impact of the current oil situation, current challenges to airlines, debates over trade policy, and consequences of the “amazing shrinking dollar.”

  
  

  
  

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  Macroeconomics: Principles, Applications, and Tools, 5/E
  O'Sullivan, Sheffrin & Perez
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 448 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013232928X | ISBN-13: 9780132329286
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  O’Sullivan/Sheffrin/Perez 5e uses questions to drive student interest, then applications to illustrate concepts, and then tools to practice economic concepts.

   

  Students come into their first Economics course thinking they will better understand the economy around them; the choices our government, international governments, businesses, and individuals make.  Unfortunately, many don’t get answers to those questions when they complete the course.

   

  O/S/P uses chapter opening questions, applications that explain and tie to those questions throughout the chapter, and chapter ending tools to help students actively internalize economics.

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  Macroeconomics: Private Markets and Public Choice plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit, 7/E
  Ekelund, Ressler & Tollison
  ©2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0321456416 | ISBN-13: 9780321456410
  Suggested retail price: $146.07  Net price: $109.55  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  If your course begins before 8/1/06, click here. Starting in August 2006, this text will come packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor and offers students book-specific practice, online homework, access to the eBook, and learning resources. (For that ISBN, click here.) Professors who wish to use advanced course management should order the ISBN above to receive the book packaged with MyEconLab in CourseCompass.

  
  

  Macroeconomics: Private Markets and Public Choice emphasizes that economics is, at its base, about our society's well-being and our individual happiness in all forms, not just profit. The authors teach students to apply economic concepts not only to key policy decisions like taxes, inflation, and free trade, but also to personal decisions such as household finance, marriage, and career choices.

  The Seventh Edition is enhanced by MyEconLab, the online homework system featuring automatically graded graphing problems and proven tutorial tools. Access to MyEconLab comes with every new textbook at no additional cost to the student.

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  Macroeconomics: Private Markets and Public Choice plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit, 7/E
  Ekelund, Ressler & Tollison
  ©2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package; 498 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321459687 | ISBN-13: 9780321459688
  Suggested retail price: $154.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $115.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  This text comes packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor. With this, students can access practice problems for each chapter in the book, graphing questions, learning resources, and live tutoring. Professors who plan to use advanced course management online should order the book with MyEconLab in CourseCompass. View ‘Alternate Versions’ of this book on the web catalog page, or contact your local representative for details.
  
  

  Macroeconomics: Private Markets and Public Choice emphasizes that economics is, at its base, about our society's well-being and our individual happiness in all forms, not just profit. The authors teach students to apply economic concepts not only to key policy decisions like taxes, inflation, and free trade, but also to personal decisions such as household finance, marriage, and career choices.
  
  

  The Seventh Edition is enhanced by MyEconLab, the online homework system featuring automatically graded graphing problems and proven tutorial tools. Access to MyEconLab comes with every new textbook at no additional cost to the student.

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  Microeconomics, 7/E
  Pindyck & Rubinfeld
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 768 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132080230 | ISBN-13: 9780132080231
  Suggested retail price: $173.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $130.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For undergraduate and graduate economics majors who are enrolled in an Intermediate Microeconomics course.

   

  A book that provides a treatment of microeconomic theory that stresses the relevance and application to managerial and public policy decision making.

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  Microeconomics, 2/E
  Hubbard & O'Brien
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 704 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0138132771 | ISBN-13: 9780138132774
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Hubbard & O'Brien is the only book that motivates students to learn economics through real business examples.   

   

  The #1 question students of economics ask themselves is: "Why am I here, and will I ever use this"?  Hubbard & O'Brien answer this question by demonstrating that real businesses use economics to make real decisions daily.  This is motivating to all students, whether they are business majors or not.  All students can relate to businesses they encounter in their everyday lives.   Whether they open an art studio, do social work, trade on Wall Street, work for the government, or bartend at the local pub, students will benefit from understanding the economic forces behind their work.

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  Microeconomics, 3/E
  Hubbard & O'Brien
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 720 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136021972 | ISBN-13: 9780136021971
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For the one-semester Principles of Microeconomics courses at 4-year & 2-year colleges and universities.

   

  Still Keeping it Real and More Accessible Than Ever!

  Hubbard & O'Brien keeps it real in the third edition with updated examples, data, and end-of-chapter problems, providing the most up-to-date discussion on the recession/financial crisis and the monetary and fiscal policy response.

   

  Hubbard & O'Brien is the only book that motivates students to learn economics through real business examples.

  The #1 question students of economics ask themselves is:  "Why am I here, and will I ever use this?"  Hubbard/O'Brien answer this question by demonstrating that real businesses use economics to make real decisions daily.  This is motivating to all students, whether they are business majors or not.  All students can relate to businesses they encounter in their everyday lives.  Whether they open an art studio, do social work, trade on Wall Street, work for the government, or bartend at the local pub, students will benefit from understanding the economic forces behind their work.

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  Microeconomics plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit
  Leeds, von Allmen & Schiming
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0321451279 | ISBN-13: 9780321451279
  Suggested retail price: $154.33  Net price: $115.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  If your course begins before 8/1/06, click here. Starting in August 2006, this text will come packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab,which requires no set-up by the professor and offers students book-specific practice, online homework, access to the eBook, and learning resources. (For that ISBN, click here.) Professors who wish to use advanced course management should order the ISBN above to receive the book packaged with MyEconLab in CourseCompass.
  
  

  Microeconomics offers a novel approach to the principles of economics course based on three pedagogical principles:

  • Ongoing assessment is an essential component of the learning process;
  • Students understand concepts better when they are presented in the context of engaging stories;
  • Students remember more when they connect concepts to what they see or read in the news and what they experience in their every day life.

  Quality assessment permeates every component of Microeconomics, the first textbook to offer a class-tested test bank. MyEconLab’s innovative online homework and tutorial system, with its innovative computer-grade graphing exercises, is tightly linked to the text.

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  Microeconomics plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eText Student Access Kit, 8/E
  Parkin
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032149122X | ISBN-13: 9780321491220
  Suggested retail price: $154.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $115.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The leading economists today started out as students taking the Principles course. Parkin writes in a way that reaches out to all students, encouraging them to think like economists from the first week of class. Microeconomics provides a serious, analytical approach to the discipline by introducing the main ideas and then developing those ideas with the latest research, policy, and data. The result is that students learn to apply economics the way real economists do, by evaluating the decisions in their personal, academic, and professional lives.
  
  The Eighth Edition takes a new approach to modern macroeconomic theory with an earlier integration of international topics that gives an accurate picture of how theory is used to guide and evaluate macroeconomic policy. The microeconomics chapters include the latest research, and incorporate a unifying theme related to the tension between self- and social-interest.
  
  Starting in this edition, MyEconLab now includes all of Parkin’s end-of-chapter problems so that assignments can be automatically graded online. MyEconLab in CourseCompass™ provides additional optional customization and communication tools. Instructors who teach distance-learning courses or very large lecture sections find the CourseCompass™ format useful because they can upload course documents and assignments, customize the order of chapters, and use communication features such as Digital Dropbox and Discussion Board.
  
  View a demo of MyEconLab. For more information about MyEconLab in CourseCompass™, or to request an Instructor Access Code, visit MyEconLab.

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  Microeconomics with MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit, 8/E
  Parkin
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package; 552 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321416600 | ISBN-13: 9780321416605
  Suggested retail price: $154.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $115.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The leading economists today started out as students taking the Principles course. Parkin writes in a way that reaches out to all students, encouraging them to think like economists from the first week of class. Microeconomics provides a serious, analytical approach to the discipline by introducing the main ideas and then developing those ideas with the latest research, policy, and data. The result is that students learn to apply economics the way real economists do, by evaluating the decisions in their personal, academic, and professional lives.
  
  The Eighth Edition takes a new approach to modern macroeconomic theory with an earlier integration of international topics that gives an accurate picture of how theory is used to guide and evaluate macroeconomic policy. The microeconomics chapters include the latest research, and incorporate a unifying theme related to the tension between self- and social-interest.
  
  Starting in this edition, MyEconLab now includes all of Parkin’s end-of-chapter problems so that assignments can be automatically graded online.

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  Microeconomics: Principles, Applications, and Tools, 5/E
  O'Sullivan, Sheffrin & Perez
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 480 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131572830 | ISBN-13: 9780131572836
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  O’Sullivan/Sheffrin/Perez 5e uses questions to drive student interest, then applications to illustrate concepts, and then tools to practice economic concepts.

   

  Students come into their first Economics course thinking they will better understand the economy around them; the choices our government, international governments, businesses, and individuals make.  Unfortunately, many don’t get answers to those questions when they complete the course.

   

  O/S/P uses chapter opening questions, applications that explain and tie to those questions throughout the chapter, and chapter ending tools to help students actively internalize economics.

• 
  Microeconomics: Private Markets and Public Choice plus MyEconLab in CourseCompass plus eBook Student Access Kit, 7/E
  Ekelund, Ressler & Tollison
  ©2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321454685 | ISBN-13: 9780321454683
  Suggested retail price: $154.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $115.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  If your course begins before 8/1/06, click here. Starting in August 2006, this text will come packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor and offers students book-specific practice, online homework, access to the eBook, and learning resources. (For that ISBN, click here.) Professors who wish to use advanced course management should order the ISBN above to receive the book packaged with MyEconLab in CourseCompass.
  
  

  Microeconomics: Private Markets and Public Choice emphasizes that economics is, at its base, about our society's well-being and our individual happiness in all forms, not just profit. The authors teach students to apply economic concepts not only to key policy decisions like taxes, inflation, and free trade, but also to personal decisions such as household finance, marriage, and career choices.
  
  

  The Seventh Edition is enhanced by MyEconLab, the online homework system featuring automatically graded graphing problems and proven tutorial tools. Access to MyEconLab comes with every new textbook at no additional cost to the student.

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  Microeconomics: Private Markets and Public Choice plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit, 7/E
  Ekelund, Ressler & Tollison
  ©2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper Package; 512 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321451139 | ISBN-13: 9780321451132
  Suggested retail price: $154.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $115.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  This text comes packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor. With this, students can access practice problems for each chapter in the book, graphing questions, learning resources, and live tutoring. Professors who plan to use advanced course management online should order the book with MyEconLab in CourseCompass. View ‘Alternate Versions’ of this book on the web catalog page, or contact your local representative for details.
  
  

  Microeconomics: Private Markets and Public Choice emphasizes that economics is, at its base, about our society's well-being and our individual happiness in all forms, not just profit. The authors teach students to apply economic concepts not only to key policy decisions like taxes, inflation, and free trade, but also to personal decisions such as household finance, marriage, and career choices.
  
  

  The Seventh Edition is enhanced by MyEconLab, the online homework system featuring automatically graded graphing problems and proven tutorial tools. Access to MyEconLab comes with every new textbook at no additional cost to the student.

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  Principles of Macroeconomics, 8/E
  Case & Fair
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 560 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132226456 | ISBN-13: 9780132226455
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Target Market: for the 1 semester principles of macroeconomics course.

   

  One of the all time best-sellers, this text is widely used because of its careful, streamlined, and intuitive chapter organization.

   

  The Keynesian Cross is an integral part of this text.  Case & Fair believe strongly, that a text should use the Keynesian Cross carefully and systematically, to build up to the AD/AS model.  One of the great benefits of this approach, is that students won't mistakenly apply what they learned about simple demand and supply to aggregate demand & supply.  (A detailed summary of this approach can be found on the page directly following the inside front cover).

   

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  Principles of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets plus MyEconLab Student Access Kit, 11/E
  Ritter, Silber & Udell
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Bound with PIN | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321205251 | ISBN-13: 9780321205254
  Suggested retail price: $180.00  Net price: $135.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  This classic textbook incorporates the most current research and data while taking stock of sweeping changes in the international financial landscape produced by financial innovation, deregulation, and geopolitical considerations. Well-known for its casual, conversational style, this text makes sophisticated concepts accessible.

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  Survey of Economics: Principles, Applications, and Tools, 4/E
  O'Sullivan, Sheffrin & Perez
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 456 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136093809 | ISBN-13: 9780136093800
  Suggested retail price: $147.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $110.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For one semester Principles of Economics courses.
  
  Questions that drive interest, applications that illustrate concepts, and the tools to test and solidify comprehension.
   
  Students come into their first Economics course thinking they will gain a better understanding of the economy around them. Unfortunately, they often leave with many unanswered questions. To ensure students actively internalize economics, O'Sullivan/Sheffrin/Perez use chapter-opening questions to spark interest on important economic concepts, applications that vividly illustrate those concepts, and chapter-ending tools that test and solidify understanding.
  
  

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