
McConnell, Economics © 2018, 21e
Grades: 9 - 12
Economics remains the top-selling book for AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics courses. The authors’ 40 years of teaching success are reflected in the clear treatment of economics concepts, balanced coverage, and patient explanations. Streamlined to only focus on AP content with easy visual clues to separate microeconomic and macroeconomics.
Program Details
This tried and true favorite includes:
• Updated online AP Teacher Manual, test bank, and ebook correlations aligned to new 2019 Framework.
• A Focus Review Guide workbook to help students apply the essential AP content covered in each chapter.
• Robust AP resources including AP part and chapter introductions, AP-style test practice, AP quick review sections and complete practice exams.
• Online AP Teacher Manual with pacing guides, teaching notes, student stumbling block suggestions, and lecture notes.
• An eBook and a SmartBook® adaptive reading experience designed to help students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge.
BOTH MACRO AND MICRO | MICROECONOMICS | MACROECONOMICS
PART ONE Introduction to Economics and the Economy
- CHAPTER 1 Limits, Alternatives, and Choices
- CHAPTER 2 The Market System and the Circular Flow
PART TWO Price, Quantity, and Efficiency
- CHAPTER 3 Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium
- CHAPTER 4 Market Failures: Public Goods and Externalities
- CHAPTER 5 Government’s Role and Government Failure
PART THREE Consumer Behavior
- CHAPTER 6 Elasticity
- CHAPTER 7 Utility Maximization
PART FOUR Microeconomics of Product Markets
- CHAPTER 8 Businesses and the Costs of Production
- CHAPTER 9 Pure Competition in the Short Run
- CHAPTER 10 Pure Competition in the Long Run
- CHAPTER 11 Pure Monopoly
- CHAPTER 12 Monopolistic Competition
- CHAPTER 13 Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior
PART FIVE Microeconomics of Resource Markets and Government
- CHAPTER 14 The Demand for Resources
- CHAPTER 15 Wage Determination
- CHAPTER 16 Rent, Interest, and Profit
- CHAPTER 17 Public Finance: Expenditures and Taxes
PART SIX Microeconomic Issues and Policies
- CHAPTER 18 Antitrust Policy and Regulation
- CHAPTER 19 Income Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination
PART SEVEN GDP, Growth, and Instability
- CHAPTER 20 An Introduction to Macroeconomics
- CHAPTER 21 Measuring Domestic Output and National Income
- CHAPTER 22 Economic Growth
- CHAPTER 23 Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation
PART EIGHT Macroeconomic Models and Fiscal Policy
- CHAPTER 24 Basic Macroeconomic Relationships
- CHAPTER 25 The Aggregate Expenditures Model
- CHAPTER 26 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
- CHAPTER 27 Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and Debt
PART NINE Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy
- CHAPTER 28 Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions
- CHAPTER 29 Money Creation
- CHAPTER 30 Interest Rates and Monetary Policy
- CHAPTER 31 Financial Economics
PART TEN Extensions and Issues
- CHAPTER 32 Extending the Analysis of Aggregate Supply
- CHAPTER 33 Current Issues in Macro Theory and Policy
PART ELEVEN International Economics
- CHAPTER 34 International Trade
- CHAPTER 35 The Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates, and Trade Deficits
ENRICHMENT CHAPTERS (online in Connect® only)
- CHAPTER 1 Behavioral Economics
- CHAPTER 2 Technology, R&D, and Efficiency
- CHAPTER 3 Natural Resource and Energy Economics
- CHAPTER 4 Agriculture: Economics and Policy
- CHAPTER 5 Health Care
- CHAPTER 6 Immigration
- CHAPTER 7 The Economics of Developing Countries
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