MICROECONOMICS  1st Edition
	by Ayers, Collinge
	SNAPSHOTS

The Activebook edition of Microeconomics: Explore and Apply leaves out much of the material found in the regular edition of the text.  For example, it leaves out the listing of the learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter and the summary, key terms, and the exercises at the end of each chapter. This is no big loss to the student since the learning objectives, the summary, the key terms, and the exercises can be found on the on-line companion edition of the Activebook.

Almost all of the actual written text of the chapters in the regular edition can be found in the hardcopy edition of the Activebook. This means that someone could just read the hardcopy of the Activebook and get everything that they would have gotten out of reading the regular edition of the textbook.

Except for one little thing. The little sections called "Snapshots" in the regular edition are not available in the hardcopy of the Activebook, but they are available on the on-line version.

The Snapshots sections are defined in the following way in the regular textbook:
"Students retain economic concepts best when they see how these concepts relate to their immediate world. We include three Snapshots in each chapter to reinforce key concepts that have been presented."

If you are relying on the hardcopy of the Activebook text for your reading, below I supply the following list of the Snapshots available on the on-line version of the Activebook. I do this because some of the questions on the exams have been drawn from these Snapshot sections.

 

Chapter 1	1.1 Students of Economics-Always Exploring, Always Applying
	1.3 Intertwining Economic and Political Philosophies
	1.4 Models-From Einstein's Mind to Yours

Chapter 2	2.1 "the Grass is Always Greener……
	2.2  Japanese Rice for North Korean Rockets
	2.4  Competing with Comparative Advantage

Chapter 3	3.1 More than Nature's Wrath
	3.1 New Coke? or Old Coke in a New Bottle?
	3.2 The Livestock Gourmet on a Hot Summer Day

Chapter 4	4.1 The Paradox of Diamonds and Water
	4.2 Scalping the Stones
	4.3 Homeless and Without a Job

Chapter 5	5.2 Free Shipping!
	5.2 Budgeting, Vegas Style
	5.5 Sin Taxes-Is It Morality We're After?

Chapter 6	6.1 From a Mac to a King
	6.2 Enough is Enough!
	6.3 Hilfiger and Company

Chapter 7	7.1 Franchising-Teaming Small Businesses with Giant Corporations
	7.1 Five for a Dime
	7.2 Giving Away Other People's Money

Chapter 8	8.1 How to Sink a Business
	8.2 Burglary Is Their Business
	8.3 Battling Over Costs-the $22 Billion Strike at General Motors

Chapter 9	9.1 Antiquarian Books in a Dot-Com World
	9.2 From Blue Agave to Blue Investors-Betting on Prices
	9.3 Old McDonald Farms Again!

Chapter 10	10.1 Is the American Medical Association Hazardous to Your Health?
	10.3 Finding Monopoly-Microsoft Yes, Dupont No
	10.3 The State Lottery-One Monopoly Lawmakers Like!

Chapter 11	11.1 Theme Parks-The Theme is to Compete
	11.1 Merging into Bankruptcy
	11.4 A Quarter for a Coke When You're Cold

Chapter 12	12.1 The Mystery of the Disappearing Dot-Com Jobs
	12.2 Job Entrepreneurship-Finding What's Hot
	12.3 "There was No Joy in Mudville…

Chapter 13	13.2 Too Rich to Work? or Too Poor to Retire?
	13.4 "Cut My Salary. Please!"
	13.4 Homespun-Promoting Family Values?

Chapter 14	14.1 "What's a Little Snow?"
	14.2 Hear Ye! Message Ye!-Airwaves at Auction
	14.3 Seeing Red over Spy-Cams

Chapter 15	15.1 Back in Time to Baker Street
	15.2 Smoking while Eating and Phoning While Driving
	15.3 Killer Bees, Fire Ants, Hungry Rabbits, and Walking Fish

Chapter 16	16.1 Choosing a President, Florida
	16.3 A Tax by Any Other Name
	16.3 You Might Be a Winner!