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Fourteen lesson plans uses a unique blend of games, simulations, role playing activities that illustrate economics in a way every elementary student will enjoy.
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Describing the men who have led the U.S. Treasury since its creation in 1789, this book profiles those who have held the cabinet position of Secretary of the Treasury from Alexander Hamilton to Robert Rubin. Each profile provides the reader with an understanding of the man, the problems he faced, and the contributions he made. While focusing on the economic policy problems of an era and the solutions the secretary offered, each profile also includes a vignette illustrating the secretary's personality and background. Some represent backgrounds of money and power, others backgrounds of simplicity and anonymity. Some came to the office with greater stature than when they left, while others made...
The aim of this text is to teach the basics of macro and micro economics. The book emphasizes critical thinking as a key consideration in making economic issues engaging, it gives coverage of supply and demand and international trade and global issues, new coverage of economic growth and learning aids include photographs, graphs, charts, chapter summaries and questions. Core material is contained within the text and non-essential material is placed in the appendices to allow for a more flexible approach to teaching.
For the one-semester survey of economics course, Mankiw now provides an excellent resource for students who are seeing economics for the first time. His two-semester version of the text has received such praise as "perhaps the best ever" textbook in economic principles. Its no wonder Mankiw's prize project has quickly become one of the most successful books ever to be published in the college marketplace. The author's conversational writing style is superb for presenting the politics and science of economic theories to tomorrow's decision-makers. Because Mankiw wrote it for the students, the book stands out among all other texts by intriguing students to apply an economic way of thinking in their daily lives.
In writing this textbook, Mankiw has tried to put himself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. The author's conversational writing style is superb for presenting the politics and science of economic theories to tomorrow's decision-makers. Because Mankiw wrote it for the students, the book stands out among all other principle texts by intriguing students to apply an economic way of thinking in their daily lives. Receiving such a praise as "perhaps the best ever" textbook in economic principles, it's no wonder Mankiw's prize project has quickly become one of the most successful books ever to be published in the college marketplace.
Written in an informal colloquial style, this student-friendly principles of economics textbook aims to instill economic sensibility in the student. It emphasizes the intellectual and historical context to which the economic models are applied.
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