Content:
1: What is economics about?
Microeconomics
Part 1: Consumer Markets
2: Demand and supply
3: Consumer choice: indifference theory
Part 2: Decision Making by Firms
4: The cost structure of firms
5: Perfect competition
6: Monopoly
7: Imperfect competition
Part 3: Input Markets and the Role of Government
8: Demand and supply of inputs
9: The labour market
10: Capital, investment, and new technology
11: Successes and failures of markets
12: The role of government
Macroeconomics
Part 4: Macroeconomics: issues and framework
13: Issues for the aggregate economy
14: A basic model of the determination of GDP in the short term
15: GDP Within an open economy government
16: Money and monetary institutions
17: The money market
18: GDP in a monetary economy with a constant price level
19: GDP in a monetary economy with a variable price level
20: GDP with credible inflation targeting
Part 5: Global Economic Issues
21: Booms and recessions in the aggregate economy
22: Currency values and external payments
23: Economic growth and sustainability
24: International trade
25: Economics of developing countries

The authors provide a consistent theoretical framework and relate it to a wide range of applied material, making clear the relevance of the subject to the real world of business and policy.
New and updated global case studies give a broad, international perspective on economics and encourage readers to develop and contextualize their understanding of core themes.
Up to date coverage of the financial crisis and subsequent changes to the global economic landscape allows students to apply the economics they are learning to important contemporary issues
Problem solving and numerical questions encourage readers to develop analytical skills.
New to this Edition:
New content - including case study material - on the Covid-19 crisis in Chapters 13, 21, and 25
Updated coverage on the economics of developing countries in Chapter 25
Updated global case studies throughout---provided by publisher