Economics is a subject you learn by doing. Foundations of Economics breaks the mold of a traditional text and becomes a practice-oriented learning system. Each chapter uses a Checklist to focus students' attention on the most important key concepts. A discrete section introduces each of these core concepts and is immediately followed by a Checkpoint, a full page of practice that applies the concept. The result is a patient, confidence-building approach that prepares students to use economics in their lives, regardless of what their future career will be.

Many instructors turn to online assessment in MyEconLab as a way to encourage practice without needing to grade homework by hand. Bade and Parkin have written online versions of their Checkpoints and end-of-chapter problems in MyEconLab so that there is complete synchronicity between the content online and in the text.

Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 A Closer Look at Markets
Part 3 How Governments Influence the Economy
Part 4 A Closer Look at Decision Markets
Part 5 Prices, Profits, and Industry Performance
Part 6 Incomes and Inequality
Part 7 Monitoring the Macroeconomy
Part 8 The Real Economy
Part 9 The Money Economy
Part 10 Economic Fluctuations
etc.