Summer 2026 Updates

What’s New in the eBook

Highlights

• Enhanced interactive graphs throughout the ebook.
• New and updated chapter openers, Business Cases, and Economics in Action features.
• Expanded coverage of current topics, including AI, 2025 steel tariffs, climate policy, banking regulation, and monetary policy.
• Updated economic data throughout key macroeconomics chapters.

Chapter Updates

Major updates across the macroeconomics chapters improve clarity, incorporate current economic developments, and refresh data through 2024–2025. Highlights include:

• Updated examples and data on Economic Models.
• Updated examples and data on Price Controls and Quotas.
• Updated examples and data on International Trade.
• Updates to Macroeconomics, GDP and the CPI, and Unemployment and Inflation.
• Updates to Long-Run Economic Growth.
• Updates to Fiscal Policy.
• Updates to Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve System.
• Updates to Monetary Policy.
• Updates to Inflation, Disinflation, and Deflation.

Winter 2024 Updates:

The updated Econ Math and Graphing Tutorials in Achieve bridge foundational math gaps for economics students through revamped, interactive modules featuring modern videos, algorithmically generated questions, and improved assessments designed to deepen understanding and reflection. Comprehensive accessibility features ensure that all students can effectively engage with the material.

This materials covers 10 foundational areas including Slope, Graphs, Percent Change, Ratios, Linear Equations, Averages, and more.

Seventh Edition Updates (2024):

• Interactive Graphs in the e–book and in a Graphing Bank allow students to engage with economic models to see how components of the graph change as market dynamics change. Every data graph in the text is now interactive, so students can explore live visualizations and improve their data literacy.
  
• Interactive Topic Reviews, with embedded interactive graphs and assessment, cover essential principles topics in an easy-to-use, self-study format, to help students prepare for class time, quizzes, or exams.
  
• Thoroughly revised aggregate demand and aggregate supply chapter now highlights the dynamic relationship between inflation and GDP. This change allows instructors to more easily teach students about the modern changes to monetary policy and how the Federal Reserve has responded to the latest inflationary pressures.
  
• Revamped AD/AS model now focusing on the inflation rate and GDP, rather than the price level, giving students a more practical and applicable understanding of the current economic landscape.