Economics

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 Macroeconomics 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 Macroeconomics, 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.

• Learning by doing: The hallmark of the Bade/Parkin approach is learning by doing. Studies have shown that students retain 90% of what they apply immediately in real-life situations and 75% of what they practice, but only 10% of what they read or hear. The unique Checklist/Checkpoint systemin Foundations of Macroeconomics ensures that students are constantly practicing the multi-step thought process that characterizes the economic way of thinking.
• Checklists at the beginning of each chapter preview the key ideas of each chapter, so students know where they’re heading.
• Checkpoints follow each chapter section (which develops one core concept) and present a Practice Problem with solution and a parallel Exercise. These Practice Problems and Exercises aren’t simple recall/review problems—they’re multi-step economic problems that require the kind of careful thought that ensures real learning takes place. The Checkpoints are a central component of the Foundations of Macroeconomics learning program and complement, rather than replace, the end-of-chapter problems and exercises instructors may assign for homework.
• Quality over quantity: Each chapter of Foundations of Macroeconomics concentrates on three or four core concepts that are called out in the beginning-of-chapter Checklists. Students remember more of what's important and are better able to use their knowledge to approach and solve problems.
• Diagrams that tell the whole story: Since understanding graphs is so important to students' understanding of economics, Foundations of Macroeconomics uses gradated color to show the direction of shifts in graphs, and detailed, numbered captions that walk students step-by-step through the action.
• Tight integration with MyEconLab: All Checkpoint Problems as well as end-of-chapter exercises and problems can be completed online within MyEconLab. With MyEconLab, students can take advantage of interactive graphs, customized feedback and guided solutions, and instructors can make use of powerful online automatically graded homework and quizzing tools.

• Features of MyEconLab
• Computer graded graphing exercises: To help students become more comfortable and proficient working with economic graphs and models, MyEconLab has three types of automatically graded graphing exercises: freehand Draw Graph exercises, interactive Model-based Graph exercises, and time-series Data Graph exercises.
• Online homework and quizzing capabilities: Instructors can assign any of the hundreds of text-specific exercises and problems, and MyEconLab will grade and track all student work. All textbook problems are also found in MyEconLab, ensuring a seamless experience for instructors and students.
• Practice Tests: Within MyEconLab, students can assess how well they understand the material before they take an exam by taking the online Practice Tests.
• Study Plan: MyEconLab customizes a Study Plan based on each student’s individual performance on Practice Tests. From the Study Plan, students can link to additional practice exercises with guided solutions, detailed feedback, interactive tutorials, and links to relevant sections of the textbook for review.
• Economics In the News: Updated daily during the semester, this online link to a current news story is accompanied by questions written by the textbook authors.                      
• Office Hours: Students can email their questions to the authors and receive a response, usually within 24 hours.

• Flexibility for traditional, hybrid, or pure online courses: Foundations of Macroeconomics is a tightly integrated learning system, allowing instructors adapt it for a variety of different course formats:
• In the traditional classroom, the textbook stands on its own as a solid foundation for any principles-level course. MyEconLab can be used for student self-study, or as the primary platform for homework and quizzing.
• For instructors who wish to mix classroom instruction with online learning, MyEconLab and the textbook work together seamlessly and provide resources that support students as well as instructors in and out of the classroom.
• Purely online courses benefit from MyEconLab with eText—which, by itself, can be comfortably relied upon for all your course needs.

• Available in a variety of different formats to accommodate different budgets
• Each new student edition of the standard textbook comes with access to MyEconLab.
• Books á la Carte Plus—a three-hole drilled, unbound textbook with access to MyEconLab, at approximately 70% of the price of the standard textbook.
• MyEconLab with eText—an online, unabridged version of the textbook with all of the features of MyEconLab, for approximately half the price of the standard textbook.
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INTRODUCTION.

1. Getting Started.

2. The U.S. and Global Economies

3. The Economic Problem.

4. Demand and Supply.

II. MONITORING THE MACROECONOMY.

5. GDP and the Standard of Living.

6. Jobs and Unemployment.

7. The CPI and the Cost of Living.

III. THE REAL ECONOMY.

8. Potential GDP and the Natural Unemployment Rate.

9. Investment and Saving.

10. Economic Growth.

IV. THE MONEY ECONOMY.

11. Money and the Monetary System.

12. Money Creation and Control.

13. Money, Interest, and Inflation.

V. ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS.

14. AS-AD and the Business Cycle.

15. Aggregate Expenditure.

16. Fiscal and Monetary Policy Effects.

17. The Short-Run Policy Tradeoff.

18. Fiscal and Monetary Policy Debates.

VI. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.

19. International Trade.

Using economics is the best way to learn economics.

Research shows the best way to learn is to put concepts to work through repeated practice. For this reason, frequent, quality practice is the cornerstone of the tightly knit Foundations of Macroeconomics learning system.

The Checklist/Checkpoint system hones students’ economic thinking skills by:

• Focusing students on what to study with a Checklist of clearly defined core concepts
• Demonstrating how to apply economics concepts through Checkpoints that step students through a Practice Problem and follow up with a parallel Exercise
• Addressing why we study economics with, Reality Check, a new feature that links economic ideas to everyday life and shows why economics matters.

MyEconLab for Foundations gets you up to speed in class. With tools tied directly to your text and every Checkpoint problem and exercise available online, you’ll get the immediate, targeted help you need. Economics in the News features, updated daily, link you to current news stories complete with questions written by the textbook authors.

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This package contains:
•   Bade & Parkin, Foundations of Macroeconomics, Books a la Carte Edition, 3/E (2007)
•   Addison-Wesley, MyEconLab with E-Book 1-semester Student Access Kit (valuepack item only) (2007)
•   Addison-Wesley, Principles of Economics Study Card (2007)

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