Economics

Ancillary Descriptions

Instructor's Resource Manual
This manual includes Chapter Overviews, Teaching Objectives, Key Terms, Lecture Outline and Teaching Tips, Discussion Topics, and guidance for using the Taylor Web site for each chapter. Also, solutions to all the end-of-chapter text problems have been checked and expanded to provide more detailed answers and rationales for student teachers and teaching assistants.

Microeconomics Student Study Guide
Macroeconomics Student Study Guide
Each Study Guide chapter contains: a brief chapter overview and point-by-point review; a Zeroing In section focusing on key concepts and graphs; an Active Review to test students on their factual understanding of the chapter; a Working It Out section with step-by-step analysis of problems (usually math-based) including both worked and practice problems. At the end of each part, a comprehensive multiple-choice self-test will help the student prepare for classroom exam.

Microeconomics Printed Test Bank
Macroeconomics Printed Test Bank
Over 500 questions have been added to this edition's printed test banks giving instructors well over 5,000 questions to choose from. These include Parallel Problems, which match the end-of-chapter problems one-to-one.

Textbook Companion Web Site
A wealth of electronic learning resources for students is found on the companion website. A variety of online materials to reinforce and extend the textbook lessons are found here, including ACE self-assessment quizzes, electronic flashcards of key terms, Internet Exercises, Economics W.I.R.E.D(Web-Intensive Research Exercises and Discussions) web-based projects, an electronic glossary, research links, and additional topic coverage. There is a separate section for instructors, which provides the contents of the Instructor's Resource Manual, the testing program, and other teaching tools.

HMClass Prep with HM Testing CD-ROM
This CD-ROM features electronic teaching aid files such as ready-to-use PowerPoint slides and lecture outlines that can be tailored to meet specific instructor needs, teaching tips, discussion topics, solutions to end-of-chapter problems, and a video file of John Taylor as he conducts the well-known Double Oral Auction experiment. In addition, a flexible test-editing program with a comprehensive gradebook function enables instructors to efficiently create tests and track scores online or over a network server. Instructors can scramble answer choices, edit questions, add questions to the database, and customize tests by degree of difficulty, format, or chapter. The HM Testing database features a pool of multiple-choice and essay questions.

Student CD-ROM, which provides an interactive study tool with chapter walkthroughs, hot-linked glossary terms with pronunciation guide, interactive activities, and quizzes to reinforce the most challenging concepts in each chapter of Economics.

Transparencies
A comprehensive set of full-color transparencies for all numbered text figures that are used to describe economic models or theories.




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