Economics (Available Titles CengageNOW) - Hardcover

Arnold, Roger A.

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9780324538014: Economics (Available Titles CengageNOW)

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ISBN 10: 0324538014 ISBN 13: 9780324538014

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 2007

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Arnold continues to set the standard for clear, balanced, and thorough coverage of principles of economics that truly engages students. With six new chapters, easy customization, and fully integrated digital and course management options, ECONOMICS, 8e is the perfect solution for any classroom. Packed with intriguing pop culture examples to which students relate, the text bolsters student interest in economics by illustrating unexpected places economics occurs, how economic forces link events around the world to their lives, and how economics can be used as a tool in understanding the world. In addition, the eighth edition is integrated with such powerful resources as CengageNOW, Aplia, and the Tomlinson Videos. Allowing for true course customization, these resources enable instructors to teach what the want, how they want plus give them unsurpassed planning and management tools, such as homework that is automatically assigned, graded, and recorded online. Students, in turn, gain a customized learning path tailored to their specific areas of strength and weakness, ensuring they gain complete mastery of course content. With new content reflecting a changing economy and new resources catering to the needs of a changing classroom, ECONOMICS, 8e is your ideal solution for the principles course.

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Dr. Roger A. Arnold is Professor of Economics at California State University San Marcos, where his fields of specialization include general microeconomic theory and monetary theory. A widely respected authority on economic issues, Dr. Arnold is a regularly featured expert on talk radio discussing the state of the economy. He is also a proven author, who has written numerous academic articles, hundreds of newspaper columns, as well as the popular ECONOMICS: NEW WAYS OF THINKING and principles of macroeconomics supplementary text, HOW TO THINK LIKE AN ECONOMIST. Dr. Arnold has been a member of the economics faculty at California State University Northridge, University of Oklahoma, Hillsdale College, University of Nevada Las Vegas, and California State University San Marcos. He served as chair of the economics department for two years at University of Nevada Las Vegas and for seven years at California State University San Marcos. He is currently chair of the economics department at California State University San Marcos. During his tenure at UNLV he was regularly one of the top five finalists for the teacher of the year honor (in the College of Business and Economics), and in 1987 he received the best researcher of the year award. Dr. Arnold earned a B.S. in Economics in 1974 from the University of Birmingham in England and received his M.A. in 1976 and his Ph.D. in 1979 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

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