Key Benefit:  Hubbard & O'Brien are still keeping it real in the third edition with new and updated coverage that reflects the current state of the economy and the recent financial meltdown.   Key Topics: MACROECONOMICS: Economics: Foundations and Models; Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System; Where Prices Come From: The Int[Read More]

Written in an informal colloquial style, this student-friendly Principles of Macroeconomics textbook does not sacrifice intellectual depth in its quest for accessibility. The author’s primary concern is to instill “economic sensibility” in the student. Colander emphasizes the intellectual and historical context to which the economic models [Read More]

A text dealing with the basic theory of macroeconomics. Revision and reorganization includes new material on international issues and controversies in macroeconomic theory and the open economy.

ECONOMICS: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CHOICE includes many more engaging elements—such as scenes from popular movies and applications of economic theory to real-world issues—to help you see how these theories apply to the world around you. Each chapter has been updated to reflect today’s market, including analysis and explanation of measures of curr[Read More]

When looking to bridge the gap between global economic events and their own daily lives, Americans have increasingly turned to Paul Krugman. His lucid grasp of economics in action and his uncanny way of translating complex issues into everyday terms have made him a bestselling author and the most widely read economist writing for the general public[Read More]

In recent years, innovative texts in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other fields have achieved dramatic pedagogical gains by abandoning the traditional encyclopedic approach in favor of attempting to teach a short list of core principles in depth. Two well-respected writers and researchers, Bob Frank and Ben Bernanke, have shown that[Read More]

Reviewers tell us that Case/Fair is one of the all-time bestselling principles of economics texts because they trust it to be clear, thorough and complete.  This well-respected author team is joined for the 9th edition by a new co-author, Sharon Oster.  Sharon’s research and teaching experience brings new coverage of modern topics and an appli[Read More]

Do you want a book that provides an integrated view of macroeconomics?   Olivier Blanchard helps students to see the big macroeconomic picture by integrating one unifying model throughout the text.   Are you tired of macroeconomics texts that take too many shortcuts?   Olivier Blanchard gives thorough treatment to many concepts that other[Read More]

Blanchard (who is the Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund "IMF") presents a unified and global view of macroeconomics, enabling students to see the connections between the short-run, medium-run, and long-run.   Technological problems and growth, financial markets and expectations, the goods market in [Read More]

Williamson’s Macroeconomics uses a thoroughly modern approach that is consistent with the way that macroeconomic research is conducted today.  Introduction and Measurement Issues: Introduction; Measurement: National Income Accounting, Prices, Saving, and Labor Markets; Business Cycle Measurement. A One-Period Model of the Macroeconomy: Consum[Read More]