A concise text focusing on core concepts, Macroeconomics for Today, Alternate Edition, 4e includes a wealth of useful pedagogical features to provide opportunities for critical thinking, interactive reading, and built-in self-assessment. The text focuses on the self-correcting aggregate demand and supply model and excludes the Keynesian aggregate expenditures model. It also aids the visual learner by giving special attention to figures and graphs.

Benefits:

• Tucker Xtra!: This online tool provides a robust set of additional online learning tools for students. Xtra! includes CNN video applications, "Ask the Instructor" lecture video clips, and numerous practice quizzes, as well as The Graphing Workshop, a one-stop learning resource for help in mastering the language of graphs.
• Reinforce - Through Visual Learning: Unique "Causation Chains" accompany graphs, helping students to visualize complex economic cause/effect relationships in terms of simple box diagrams. End-Of-Chapter "Visual Summaries" include pertinent mini-graphs and "Causation Chains" from the chapter to provide students with a visual reminder of key chapter concepts.
• Review - Self-Testing Opportunities: Multiple choice "Practice Quizzes" function as a built-in study guide at the end of each chapter. Answers are at the end of the text, and unique visual explanations of the answers can be found at the book's Web site.
• NEW! Comparative Advantage: In the 4th edition, the discussion of comparative advantage has been expanded by employing movements along the PPC curves and explaining opportunity costs with slightly more math than before (while still at a low level of rigor).
• NEW! More Balanced Macro Coverage: Additional coverage of the Classical Approach has been added to make the macro coverage more unbiased and even-handed. New coverage includes problems with the implementation of fiscal policy.
• Unique Learning System: This text combines an extremely active reading experience with superior visual reinforcement of concepts. By using its unique learning system effectively, students experience better comprehension and retention of the material. The system is built around 3 main components: Read, Reinforce, and Review.
• Read - A Manageable Reading Experience: The number of concepts per chapter are kept manageable, and are presented in digestible "bites" followed by Conclusion Statements to summarize main ideas. These statements serve as a stopping point to make sure students grasp the key concept they just read about.
• Reinforce - Through Critical Analysis: "Checkpoints" in each chapter allow students to confirm understanding of material (answers are provided at the end of each chapter) by applying their knowledge to a real-world question. "You're The Economist" articles (2/chpt.) have students connect economic theory to real-world applications through accompanying "Analyze the Issue" questions that challenge their analytical skills. "Internet Activities" at the end of each chapter direct students to Internet sites to evaluate on-line information and apply chapter concepts to what they find.