Mylab Economics with Pearson Etext -- Access Card -- for Essential Foundations of Economics

For principles of economics courses.

An engaging, practice-oriented approach to understanding core economic principles

Essential Foundations of Economics introduces economic principles students can use to navigate the financial decisions of their futures. Each chapter concentrates on 3 to 4 ideas, with each idea reinforced several times throughout the text. This patient approach helps guide learners through unfamiliar terrain and focuses them on key concepts and...
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For principles of economics courses.

An engaging, practice-oriented approach to understanding core economic principles

Essential Foundations of Economics introduces economic principles students can use to navigate the financial decisions of their futures. Each chapter concentrates on 3 to 4 ideas, with each idea reinforced several times throughout the text. This patient approach helps guide learners through unfamiliar terrain and focuses them on key concepts and skills, like reading and interpreting graphs.

The 9th Edition motivates with compelling issues and encourages learning with practice questions, to help students grasp and apply economic principles to the real world.

Hallmark features of this title

A focus on core ideas

• Each chapter concentrates on 3 or 4 ideas and later revisits them, to help students navigate the material and focus on key concepts.
• Examples and applications examine the economic factors behind key issues facing the world, such as US protection, how the sharing economy intensifies competition, and minimum wage.

An emphasis on outcome-driven teaching and learning

• The content is presented in diagrams, words and tables to appease students who are apprehensive about working with graphs.
• The text leaves room for flexibility for professors who want to cover the material in a different order.

New and updated features of this title

Discussion of key issues helps students better understand economics

• Employability, including the job skills students can develop by studying economics and jobs available to economics majors (Ch. 1)
• The efficiency of fairness of markets, with a focus on scalping (Ch. 6)
• Climate change and the Green New Deal (Ch. 9)
• Using big data to real-time high-frequency monitor and 'nowcast' real GDP (Ch. 14)
• The Modern Monetary Theory movement and why it's incorrect (Ch. 18)
• Tax cuts, infrastructure spending, and increasing deficit (Ch. 20)

Highlights of the DIGITAL UPDATE for MyLab Economics (available for Fall 2022 classes)

Instructors, contact your sales rep to ensure you have the most recent version of the course.

• 27 NEW: Inclusive Economics Videos focus on topics related to diversity, equity and inclusion in economics, including the gender and racial wealth gap, inequality in the housing market, and the effect of inequality on the economy. They encourage students to critically think about models, data, and what happens when the models don't work.
• NEW: Learning Catalytics questions help students see economics through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion and focus on growth, diverse markets, policy, etc.
• NEW: An Algorithmic testbank is built against the principles of economics taxonomy of topics. It offers unlimited versions of questions to keep your tests fresh and secure for both paper and online delivery.

Features of MyLab Economics for the 9th Edition; published 2020

• Dynamic Study Modules use the latest developments in cognitive science. They help students study chapter topics by adapting to their performance in real time.
• Assignable and auto-graded, current news stories and exercises ask students to recognize and apply economic concepts to current events.