Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process with over 150 students and faculty, ECON FOR MACROECONOMICS, 2E is an engaging and... accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners. ECON FOR MACROECONOMICS, 2E, a unique book for your principles of macroeconomics course, began with YOU. We asked you, the students, through conversations, focus groups, surveys, and interviews, how you learn best. Based on your answers and on input from faculty, we took your suggestions--online graphing practice, quizzing and review cards--and built them into the most innovative approach to teaching and learning principles of macroeconomics today. This student-tested, faculty-approved streamlined text and suite of multimedia learning aids are designed to accommodate the busy and diverse lifestyles of today's learners. With ECON FOR MACROECONOMICS, 2E, you'll find everything you need to prepare efficiently and succeed in your principles of macroeconomics course.

Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process with numerous students and faculty, ECON: MACRO, 3E is an engaging, accessible... solution designed to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners without sacrificing content. ECON: MACRO, 3E truly leads by example as award-winning teacher and author Will McEachern uses familiar examples and illustrations drawn from actual daily life to vividly demonstrate how readers have been intuitively making economic choices and dealing with economic institutions and events their entire lives. With a user-friendly approach, McEachern connects these life experiences to key macroeconomic concepts and today's latest economic developments and events.

Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process with over 150 students and faculty, ECON FOR MICROECONOMICS, 2E is an engaging and... accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners. ECON FOR MICROECONOMICS, 2E, a unique book for your principles of microeconomics course, began with YOU. We asked you, the students, through conversations, focus groups, surveys, and interviews, how you learn best. Based on your answers and on input from faculty, we took your suggestions--online graphing practice, quizzing and review cards--and built them into the most innovative approach to teaching and learning principles of microeconomics today. This student-tested, faculty-approved streamlined text and suite of multimedia learning aids are designed to accommodate the busy and diverse lifestyles of today's learners. With ECON FOR MICROECONOMICS, 2E, you'll find everything you need to prepare efficiently and succeed in your principles of microeconomics course.

Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process with numerous students and faculty, ECON: MICRO, 3E is an engaging, accessible... solution designed to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners without sacrificing content. ECON: MICRO, 3E truly leads by example as award-winning teacher and author Will McEachern uses familiar examples and illustrations drawn from actual daily life to vividly demonstrate how readers have been intuitively making economic choices and dealing with economic institutions and events their entire lives. With a user-friendly approach, McEachern connects these life experiences to key microeconomic concepts and today's latest economic developments and events.

Why are we in such a financial mess today?  There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to... widespread underestimation of risk. But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease.  ECONned is the first book to examine the unquestioned role of economists as policy-makers, and how they helped create an unmitigated economic disaster.Here, Yves Smith looks at how economists in key policy positions put doctrine before hard evidence, ignoring the deteriorating conditions and rising dangers that eventually led them, and us, off the cliff and into financial meltdown.  Intelligently written for the layman, Smith takes us on a terrifying investigation of the financial realm over the last twenty-five years of misrepresentations, naive interpretations of economic conditions, rationalizations of bad outcomes, and rejection of clear signs of growing instability. In eConned, author Yves Smith reveals:--why the measures taken by the Obama Administration are mere palliatives and are unlikely to pave the way for a solid recovery--how economists have come to play a profoundly anti-democratic role in policy--how financial models and concepts that were discredited more than thirty years ago are still widely used by banks, regulators, and investors--how management and employees of major financial firms looted them, enriching themselves and leaving the mess  to taxpayers--how financial regulation enabled predatory behavior by Wall Street towards investors --how economics has no theory of financial systems, yet economists fearlessly prescribe how to manage them