Economics Workbook

Sloman, Mr John

ISBN 10: 0273658646 / ISBN 13: 9780273658641

Published by Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2000

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Synopsis:

The Student Workbook and Reader is filled with genuine news clips and review questions and exercises. This is an invaluable source of revision work for examinations and provides students with extra real-world information. It also provides exercises, projects and readings for use in seminars and classes.

From the Back Cover:
This comprehensive Economics Student Workbook and Reader, designed to accompany Economics, Fifth edition, by John Sloman, has become a best seller in its own right and is used widely by students and tutors throughout the UK, Europe and South-East Asia.

Its unique approach of combining in one book a comprehensive set of questions of various types with articles from newspapers and journals, makes it an invaluable guide for any student of economics, as well as a useful teaching aid for tutors.

Economics Student Workbook and Reader allows students to experience a more interactive approach to the study of economics, applying the theories, working through the problems, analysing data, examining and discussing case studies, and gathering information from a variety of sources.

There are over 1500 questions and assignments, with worked answers for all review questions and problems. There are also numerous recent newspaper and journal articles, many serving as case studies to illustrate theory or discuss particular economic problems or policies.

FEATURES

Each chapter corresponds to a chapter in the main text and includes the following features:

§ A review of key concepts
§ Review questions of a range of different types: multiple choice, ordering and matching, verbal, numeric, delete wrong answer, true/false and diagrammatic
§ Longer problems and exercises
§ Data response questions
§ Student projects
§ Discussion topics and essay questions
§ An average of three articles per chapter drawn from a range of newspapers and periodicals. There is a brief introduction to each article and set of questions at the end of each one.

Economics Student Workbook and Reader will be an indispensable tool for students looking to better their understanding of core economics concepts through self-study or as part of a seminar or tutorial component to their introductory course.

'…the workbook is flawless - only someone teaching economics as long as Sloman has could have written it.' Mark Blaug

John Sloman & Mark Sutcliffe are both at the University of the West of England and bring many years of teaching experience to bear in producing a workbook that meets the needs of the modern student.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Economics Workbook
Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good