Supplements for Students and Instructors

Study Guide
One of the world's leading experts on economic education, William Walstad of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has prepared the seventeenth edition of the Study Guide. Many students find the Study Guide indispensable. Each chapter contains an introductory statement, a checklist of behavioral objectives, an outline, a list of important terms, fill-in questions, problems and projects, objective questions, and discussion questions.

The Guide comprises a superb “portable tutor” for the principles student. Separate Study Guides are available for the macro and micro paperback editions of the text.

McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager Plus™
Homework Manager is a Web-based supplement that duplicates problem sets directly from the end-of-chapter material in your textbook. Using algorithms to provide a limitless supply of online self-graded assignments and graphing exercises, Homework Manager can be used for practice, homework, and testing.

All assignments can be delivered over the Web and are graded automatically. Instructors can see all of the results stored in a private grade book. Detailed results let you see at a glance how each student does on an assignment or an individual problem. Homework Manager Plus is an extension of McGraw-Hill's popular Homework Manager System. With Homework Manager Plus you get all of the power of Homework Manager with an integrated online version of the text. Students receive one single access code which provides access to all of the resources available through Homework Manager Plus.

Homework Manager Plus is a complete online homework solution, offering online graphing exercises, practice tests correlated with the key Learning Objectives, and full integration for Blackboard and WebCT courses.

Aplia (www.aplia.com/mhhe)
McGraw-Hill/Irwin and Aplia are working together to bring you high quality content and graphing tools in economics.

Aplia provides:

• High quality problem sets
• Detailed news analyses with exercises
• Math tutorials with testing
• Online synchronous experiments

Aplia will help increase student effort and enhance greater understanding and success in the course. This new partnership enables the bundling of Aplia with McGraw-Hill economics textbooks, including the comprehensive Principles texts, one-semester splits, and the Essentials books. An integrated eBook version of the text is included when access to Aplia is purchased as part of a McGraw-Hill package. New Value Editions are also available directly from Aplia, which include a one color version of the complete text accompanied by full access to the Aplia application. The interactive tools and engaging materials are highly correlated to match the language and style of each McGraw-Hill book. Easy to use and setup, these new package options provide professors with even more flexibility and purchasing solutions for their students. To learn more about the McGraw-Hill/Aplia partnership, please visit www.aplia.com/mhhe.

Online Learning Center (www.mcconnell17.com)
The website accompanying this book contains a host of features. For example, three kinds of highly visible “Web buttons” in the text alert students to points in the book where they can springboard to the website to get more information. Students can test their knowledge of a chapter's concepts with three self-graded multiple-choice quizzes per chapter. The “See the Math” section, written by Professor Norris Peterson, enables students to explore the mathematical details of the concepts in the text. Students can also access the Solman Videos, a set of over 250 minutes of video covering key concepts from the McConnell and Brue text. Created by Paul Solman of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, the videos cover core economic concepts such as elasticity, deregulation, and perfect competition.

New to the seventeenth edition site:

• Narrated PowerPoint Presentations. Students can view these slides on the site or download the material to their video iPod. The PowerPoints are correlated to the key Learning Objectives for every chapter. (Premuim Content)
• The Solman Videos can also be downloaded to a video iPod or mp3 player. (Premium Content)
• Standard PowerPoint Presentations, answers to Web-Based questions, and self-grading tests—all specific to Economics.
• Three optional web chapters covering “Financial Economics”, “Resource and Energy Economics” and “The Economics of Developing Countries.”

Zinio eBook (www.textbooks.zinio.com)
Experience the speed, convenience, affordability and intelligence of Zinio eBooks. Digital textbooks are exact replicas of the print version, and better. They are easy to navigate, allowing you to flip back and forth between pages, with continual access to the Table of Contents with a tool bar button to jump directly to a chapter, topic, or page of interest. The Smart Zoom button allows you to easily zoom in and out, taking full advantage of crisp text and high resolution diagrams and images. Rich media offers an experience beyond simply reading, with flash, video, and audio. Embedded web links also allow you to learn more about topics of interest and when finished, you are returned to exactly where you were in the book. Find relevant information quickly and easily with the Search function that allows you get information on specific topics, phrases, and key words. You can write electronic notes with the Zinio annotation tool as well as highlight important topics. You can also print sections in high resolution and full color. Digital textbooks will become part of your lifestyle! The Zinio reader automatically saves your textbook in your own personal library on your computer. Textbooks can be easily referenced at any time, anywhere. To learn more or to download a free sample, visit www.textbooks.zinio.com.

iPod Content
Harness the power of one of the most popular technology tools students use today–the Apple iPod. Our innovative approach enables students to download audio and video presentations right into their iPod and take learning materials with them wherever they go. This makes review and study time as easy as putting on headphones. Visit www.mcconnell17.com to learn more details on available iPod content–and enhance your learning experience today. (Premium Content)

McGraw-Hill PrepCenter™
The innovative McGraw-Hill PrepCenter™ offers a dynamic web-based solution for managing all of the digital assets that accompany the McConnell and Brue textbook. The PrepCenter serves as a digital locker for your course materials, enabling you to consolidate the resources you need into readily accessible folders that are hosted in a secure and easy to use online environment. To learn more about McGraw-Hill's PrepCenter™ please visit http://prepcenter.mhhe.com/.

McGraw-Hill's Enhanced Cartridges ™
Enhanced WebCT and Balckboard course cartridges allow instructors to manage their course and administer online examinations. Some of the new features of McGraw-Hill's Study Space include:

• Pre-Test and Post-Test question banks: administer comprehensive and chapter specific pre and post tests to evaluate student understanding. Pre and Post-Test questions are tied to the chapter learning objectives and AACSB guidelines.
• Question feedback: answer feedback directs students back to the text for concept review. Feedback comments are linked to the Narrated PowerPoint presentations by Learning Objective.
• Administer tests and quizzes online: you decide how students are tested. Select the questions, time limit, and feedback options.
• Narrated PowerPoint Presentations. Students can view these slides on the site or download the material to their video iPod. The PowerPoints are correlated to the key Learning Objectives for every chapter.
• The Solman Videos can also be downloaded to a video iPod or mp3 player.
• Flashcards enhance practice and preparation.

Instructor's Manual
Randy Grant of Linfield College has revised and updated the Instructor's Resource Manual.

The revised IM includes:

• Chapter summaries
• Listings of “what's new” in each chapter
• Teaching tips and suggestions
• Learning objectives
• Chapter outlines
• Data and visual aid sources with suggestions for classroom use
• Extra questions and problems
• End-of-chapter correlation guides mapping content to the learning objectives and important AACSB standards.

The Instructor's Manual is available in hard copy, or in electronic format on the Instructor's Resource CD-ROM as well as the Instructor's Side of the Online Learning Center.

Instructor's Resource CD-ROM
This CD contains everything the instructor needs, including PowerPoint slides, all of the charts and figures from the text, Test Banks I and III, and the Instructor's Manual.

Three Test Banks
Test Bank I contains about 6300 multiple-choice and true-false questions, most of which were written by the text authors. Instructor's Manual author Randy Grant has revised Test Bank I for the 17 th edition. Test Bank II also contains around 6300 multiple-choice and true-false questions, written by William Walstad. All Test Bank I and II questions are organized by Learning Objective, type, level of difficulty, relevant text page number, and general AACSB classifications. Test Bank III contains more than 600 pages of short-answer questions and problems created in the style of the book's end-of-chapter questions. Test Bank III can be used to construct student assignments or design essay and problem exams. Suggested answers to the essay and problem questions are included. In all, more than 12,500 questions give instructors maximum testing flexibility while ensuring the fullest possible text correlation.

Test Banks I and II are available in computerized EZ Test versions, as well as in MS Word. EZ Test allows professors to create multiple versions of the same test by scrambling questions and answer choices. The EZ Test software will meet the various needs of the widest spectrum of computer users. Test Bank III is available in printed and MS Word formats.

Classroom Performance Systems by eInstruction
This is a revolutionary system that brings ultimate interactivity to the classroom. CPS is a wireless response system that gives you immediate feedback from every student in the class. CPS units include easy-to-use software for creating and delivering questions and assessments to your class. With CPS you can ask subjective and objective questions. Then every student responds with their individual, wireless response pad, providing instant results. CPS is the perfect tool for engaging students while gathering important assessment data.

• Instructor's can access eInstruction questions in two formats — CPS and PowerPoint. Motivate student preparation, interactivity, and active learning with these lecture-formatted questions.

Color Transparencies
There are more than 200 new full-color transparencies for the seventeenth edition. They encompass all the figures appearing in Economics. Additionally, the figures and tables from the text are found on the Instructor's Resource CD-ROM.