Empirical evidence integrated throughout helps students connect theory to real world policy and events.
Applications, which are integrated into the main text and use material that has been covered to illuminate real-world policies, events, and evidence.
Headlines, which show how topics in the main text relate directly to media coverage of the global economy.
Side Bars, which include topics that, while not essential, are still of interest.
Net Work boxes, provided at the end of the chapters with homework problems, which provide an opportunity for the students to explore chapter concepts on the Internet.