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Economics, 6/e

Sloman’s Economics has proven to be an extremely popular text, with consistently positive feedback from students.  Comprehensive and completely up-to-date, this sixth edition is the ideal introduction for students studying economics for the first time.  And it’s carefully designed to enhance learning and help your students to improve their marks too!

Access Card: MyEconLab: Sloman: Economics (CourseCompass),6/e

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #109634 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

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easy to learn from, flexible to teach from…

John Sloman’s Economics has proven to be an extremely popular text, with consistently positive feedback from students.  Comprehensive and completely up-to-date, this sixth edition is the ideal introduction to economics for those looking to be interested and motivated by the subject.  It’s carefully designed to enhance your learning and help you to raise your marks too!

Classic features:

·                    Careful use of a wealth of examples and cases to make the subject relevant to the real world and bring it to life.

·                    Every sentence carefully considered to ensure clarity and ease of understanding.

·                    Learning features integrated throughout the text, such as questions, definitions, web references and summaries. These encourage you to reflect on what you’ve learnt and highlight the links between different areas of the subject.

·                    Suitable for a range of courses: advanced material is covered for more rigorous courses, but is easily identifiable and can be omitted without hindering understanding of basic concepts.

New to this edition:

·                    Thoroughly revised and updated: every sentence, table, chart and factual reference has been reviewed, and revised where necessary.

·                    Many new examples and boxes have been added.

·                    NEW Threshold Concepts feature explaining the core concepts you need to grasp in order to think like an economist.

·                    NEW Looking at the Maths panels express models and theories mathematically in addition to the words and diagrams used in the main body of the text.  They are backed up by fully worked examples with questions and answers on the Companion Website, but can easily be omitted on less rigorous courses.

·                    Policy sections have been updated to reflect recent changes, for example on competition policy, monetary policy and environmental policy.

·                    Extended coverage of various aspects of globalisation, such as the rapid economic growth in China, and attempts to reduce developing country debt.

The best resource package for introductory economics just got better!  Resources are carefully integrated with the text to provide a complete and blended learning experience.

·                    Now with MyEconLab: enables you to assess your own learning, and provides a personalised Study Plan which identifies areas you need to concentrate on to improve your grades.  Specific tools are provided for you to direct your study in the most efficient way.  Access to MyEconLab is provided with every new purchase of the main text.

·                    A wealth of resources is provided on the Companion Website for both lecturers and students.  See inside for further details.

·                    A printed Workbook containing a set of over 1500 questions of various types, carefully matched to the content of the main text, allows you to test your understanding and apply your knowledge.  Available for purchase on its own, or value packed with the main text at a discount.

·                    WinEcon CD contains award-winning interactive tutorials, especially customised for use with Sloman’s Economics.  Available for purchase at a discount with the main text.

Audience:

Suitable for use on principles of economics courses as a part of single or joint honours economics degree programmes, or on introductory economics courses as a part of a business, social science or other degree programme.

About the author:

John Sloman is Principal Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of the West of England.  He is also Director of the Economics Network: the economics subject centre of the Higher Education Academy. Economics Network is based at the University of Bristol.

Customer Reviews

A must for first year Economics students
Sloman has excelled himself by producing a book on economics that is bright, colourful, well layed out and interesting to read.

I viewed economics as a boring subject until i picked up and read sloman. The great thing about this book is that you can just pick it up and read. It is well written in a concise and informative way that is not to technical yet contains all the information. This is backed up at the end of every section by a bullet point summary that covers the entire section.

If that is not enough the book is littered with case samples and explanations of terms, all importantly this book is utilising online accompanyment to the best of its ability. A website that has answers to questions in the book and the possiblity for a lecturer or teacher to set up and online course guide for their school or university.

This book is a must for anybody who wants to learn economics from scratch ot to build on their economics knowledde whether for school/university or for personal use.

Best textbook for the serious student - comprehensive and accurate
As an economics teacher, I always look very carefully at textbooks. Students naturally have varying degrees of ability and aims; to my mind, this is definitely the very best for the serious student.

Sloman's textbook is extremely comprehensive, covering almost any subject the A-level or first-year undergraduate student will want, and a strength is that Sloman relates most theories to practice. Nor does he shirk from evaluation of various theories, which is very helpful for students. A definite plus is that I have yet to come across any mistakes. It may surprise just how many authors of well-known textbooks get some of the more difficult concepts wrong, or at the kindest, oversimplified (for instance the demand for money or why Keynes rejected the loanable funds theory). Sloman makes no such errors; students will not be left questioning the explanation, at least.

There are two downsides to the book, however, neither costing a star; a pity rather than a negative. First, previous editions included many excellent text boxes of certain subjects - profiles of economists, outline of economic policies in other countries, and the like. These have now been relegated to a website link. This makes for easy updating, and keeps the length of the textbook down, but equally many have not changed at all. Textbooks naturally get passed around, or students may not have immediate access to the internet, and inclusion of these text boxes would have been better.

Second, the book falls between two stools - it is aimed at both the A-level student and the first-year undergraduate. Whilst it is generally clear what is intended for the latter, it does at times make the book a little difficult to `dip into', especially if using the index. It also makes it seem a trifle `weighty' for the A-level student.

This is definitely a textbook for someone who wants to study. Although Sloman does indeed have a very readable style, I suspect the reviewer who found that "you can just pick it up and read" is actually a commendably dedicated student! It repays thinking and study, and will be of most benefit to the inquisitive mind; while many topics are usefully treated in point form, this is not for someone who just wants a quick list of bullet points to memorise. To that end, it might not be appropriate for lesser ability groups, where something simpler and less detailed might be better suited. It will also be easier if a teacher is available to guide students, mainly to sort out what is and is not included by a particular exam board.

Despite the fact that this has been around for a while now, it remains definitely the most comprehensive and accurate A-level textbook around, ideal if you really want to study economics!

Is Economics that easy?
Sir! I have read that book as being the standart literature for economics A-Level. Surely the book covers most of the important topics and current affairs of economic science. As a student, however, your motivation is to go on the ground of something, i.e. on the very basic economic thinking and ideas of any model or argument. In the respect the book does not meet that requirement. You can read it to become aware of economic problems and possible solutions, where it leads the reader clearly to. In my opinion the book is lacking the outlining and explaining of the underlying ideas. For anyone who thinks about economics seriously (even to read it at university), I recommend Robert J. Barro's introduction in Macroeconomics (available at MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-02436-5) which starts with the microeconomic foundation, leading to the market, and then into all other macro-topics. Even though it is designed for undergraduates and graduates at university level, it is easily readable and most accessible to everyone who wants to expand their economic understanding.