This text provides students with a picture of economics as a unified discipline; a set of interrelated tools and ideas that can be used to look at the world in a different way.

This text provides students with a picture of economics as a unified discipline; a set of interrelated tools and ideas that can be used to look at the world in a different way. The book's concise approach has been carefully crafted in terms of both content and supporting pedagogy to keep students focused on learning and applying the central ideas used in economic analysis.

Part I Preliminaries: what is economics?
scarcity, choice, and economic systems
supply and demand. Part II Microeconomics - fundamental concepts: working with supply and demand
consumer choice
production and cost. (Part contents).