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Catalog The American Economy
“ This is a perfect textbook for discussion oriented principles classes.” (*)
This groundbreaking principles of economics text is devoted to explaining basic economics with an issues and policy focus to undergraduates in survey and other introductory economics courses.
Written by two best-selling textbook authors, The American Economy: How It Works and How It Doesn't delivers the optimal blend of theory, issues, and policy analysis. It covers micro-, macro-, and international aspects of the economy, and provides forceful and unapologetic discussion of the practical realities confronting America both domestically and internationally.
A comprehensive online Instructor's Manual that includes chapter outlines, key terms, chapter summaries, discussion questions, a test bank, and PowerPoint materials is available to adopting professors.
The American Economy: A Student Study Guide is also available for purchase in affordable paperback and electronic editions.
Endorsements:
”By focusing on economic issues and policy decisions, this book breathes life into the economic principles that inform them. The chapter on health-care issues is especially well done in this regard. Students will appreciate the historical excursions that shed light on efficacy of previous policy prescriptions. This is a perfect textbook for discussion oriented principles classes.” — Elia Kacapyr, Ithaca College
Catalog The American Economy
The American Economy
How It Works and How It Doesn't
By (author)
Wade L. Thomas, Robert B. Carson
e-ISBN
9780765627605
eBook Price
$59.95
Pages
474
Pub Date
March 2011
Main Subject(s)
Economics & Finance
Course Title(s)
Principles of Economics
Introduction to Economics
Introduction to Economics
“ This is a perfect textbook for discussion oriented principles classes.” (*)
This groundbreaking principles of economics text is devoted to explaining basic economics with an issues and policy focus to undergraduates in survey and other introductory economics courses.
Written by two best-selling textbook authors, The American Economy: How It Works and How It Doesn't delivers the optimal blend of theory, issues, and policy analysis. It covers micro-, macro-, and international aspects of the economy, and provides forceful and unapologetic discussion of the practical realities confronting America both domestically and internationally.
A comprehensive online Instructor's Manual that includes chapter outlines, key terms, chapter summaries, discussion questions, a test bank, and PowerPoint materials is available to adopting professors.
The American Economy: A Student Study Guide is also available for purchase in affordable paperback and electronic editions.
Endorsements:
”By focusing on economic issues and policy decisions, this book breathes life into the economic principles that inform them. The chapter on health-care issues is especially well done in this regard. Students will appreciate the historical excursions that shed light on efficacy of previous policy prescriptions. This is a perfect textbook for discussion oriented principles classes.” — Elia Kacapyr, Ithaca College