Features

New to This Edition

Achieve offers the best value and price. Because students’ and instructors’ needs are changing, our most powerful learning option is also our most affordable. Achieve is a new digital solution that brings all of the best aspects of Krugman/Wells and Macmillan's digital resources together in one place. Built on best practices in learning science, Achieve provides students with robust tools to succeed in economics while giving instructors insights into their students' understanding and performance.

Current events framed by the world’s best communicators of economics. No other text stays as fresh as Krugman and Wells, from powerful technology firms such as Amazon and Google to the global economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this edition, we've added cutting edge New Analysis features online in Achieve including Bloomberg videos and Econofact memos. These activities pair journalistic takes on pressing issues with questions based on Bloom's taxonomy.

A richer commitment to broadening students’ understanding of the global economy. With unparalleled insight and clarity, the authors use their hallmark narrative approach to take students outside of the classroom and into our global world. Starting in Chapter 1, there is a new principle on how increases in the economy's potential lead to economic growth over time. To reflect our rapidly changing world, there is an expanded section on market power and the digital economy, an incisive new look at externalities, and updated analysis on long-run growth. There is also thorough coverage of the economic impacts and policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thoroughly updated throughout. The sixth edition has been updated to reflect our always changing world. Along with updated graphs and changes in every chapter in the text, the new edition features 10 new chapter-opening stories, 13 new business cases, and 34 new Economics in Action Applications.