Product Description : With its clear and engaging writing style PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS Seventh Edition continues to be the most popular and widelyused economics textbook among todays students Mankiw emphasizes material that you are likely to find interesting about the economy particularly if you are studying economics for the first time including reallife scenarios useful facts and the many ways economic concepts play a role in the decisions you make every day I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time My goal is to emphasize the material that students should and do find interesting about the study of the economyN Gregory Mankiw