Departing from the encyclopedic nature of most Principles texts, which encourages students to simply memorize concepts and see economics as a collection of unrelated terms, formulas, graphs, and theories, 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 book s concise, less is more approach has been carefully crafted in terms of both content and supporting pedagogy