Macroeconomics with Connect Plus - Softcover

Campbell R. McConnell

9780071315494: Macroeconomics with Connect Plus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071315497 ISBN 13: 9780071315494

Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Higher Education, 2011

Overview - McConnell, Brue, and "Flynn's Microeconomics: Principles, Problems, and Policies" is the #1 Principles of Economics textbook in the world. It continues to be innovative while teaching students in a clear, unbiased way. The 19th Edition builds upon the tradition of leadership by sticking to 3 main goals: Help the beginning student master the principles essential for understanding the economizing problem, specific economic issues, and the policy alternatives; help the student understand and apply the economic perspective and reason accurately and objectively about economic matters; and promote a lasting student interest in economics and the economy. Global Edition - Reorganized chapters to move international economics topics closer to the front of the book, including adding a web chapter into the physical textbook. New globally-focused data throughout the text and figures to illustrate topics such as debt-to-GDP ratio, components of the money supply, and unemployment rates in industrial nations. Updated discussion of exchange rates to focus on the euro and euro-area countries. Revised end-of-chapter material highlighting Asian, African, Central American, and European examples. Special Global Edition of Connect Plus, McGraw-Hill's web-based assignment and assessment platform with eBook access, which helps students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge.

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About the Author:

Sean is an assistant professor of economics at Scripps College in Claremont, California. He is the author of the international best seller "Economics for Dummies" as well as the coauthor, along with Campbell McConnell and Stanley Brue, of the world's best-selling college economics textbook, "Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies".
An avid martial artist, Sean is a former Aikido national champion and has coached five of his students to U.S. national aikido titles.
A recurring commentator on FOX Business, ABC News, and NPR, Sean holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley, where he completed his dissertation under the supervision of Nobel Laureate George Akerlof.
Sean's research focuses on the often puzzling and seemingly irrational behavior of stock market investors, but he's also investigated topics as wide-ranging as the factors that affect customer tipping behavior at restaurants and why you see a lot of unionized workers only in certain industries.

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