Economics: Principles and Applications (Available Titles Aplia)

Acclaimed economists Hall and Lieberman have made the latest edition of ECONOMICS: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS as current as the headlines. Since real-world policy issues, decisions, and applications impact you on an everyday basis, Hall and Lieberman use these true, cutting-edge examples to illustrate core economic theory and application. Straightforward and easy-to-understand, this comprehensive text will equip you with a solid foundation in economics that you can build upon wherever your career path may lead. Hall and Lieberman's careful focus on important economic theories and applications, and how they relate to practical questions, effectively communicates that economics is an integrated, powerful body of knowledge that can address complex domestic and global issues. A wealth of interactive online exercises, graphing applications, and research resources will help reinforce your understanding of economic principles.

Dr. Robert E. Hall is a prominent applied economist. He is the Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, where he conducts research on inflation, unemployment, taxation, monetary policy, and the economics of high technology. Dr. Hall received his Ph.D. from MIT and has taught there as well as at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the president of the American Economic Association for the year 2010. He is also director of the research program on Economic Fluctuations of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and chairman of the Bureau's Committee on Business Cycle Dating, which maintains the chronology of the U.S. business cycle. He has published numerous monographs and articles in scholarly journals, and co-authored a popular intermediate text. Dr. Hall has advised the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board on national economic policy and has testified on numerous occasions before congressional committees.

Dr. Marc Lieberman is Clinical Professor of Economics at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Dr. Lieberman has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, labor economics, and international economics. He has presented his extremely popular Principles of Economics course at Harvard, Vassar, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Hawaii, and New York University. Dr. Lieberman has won NYU's Golden Dozen teaching award three times and has also received the Economics Society Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is co-editor and contributor to THE ROAD TO CAPITALISM: ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. Dr. Lieberman has consulted for the Bank of America and the Educational Testing Service. In his spare time, he is a professional screenwriter and teaches screenwriting at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.