The Dynamics of Successful Economic Outcome
...is the best tool currently available
for teaching real life practical application economics.
If your intentions are to prepare students for the challenges of earning a real world living, this is your new textbook. Containing active and productive 'cause-and-effect' and 'application' principles GAIN provides the proper and necessary knowledge and skills with which to arm young people for their entrance into any real work-a-day-world economic circumstances.
Review these Charts of Economic Dynamics
(offered FREE for printing for each student with a book, or any other purpose)
...and decide for yourself if Productivity Principles should be added to current Academic Theory to best prepare your students for the real world.
Review the book itself,
GAIN: The Dynamics of Successful Economic Outcome
...and decide for yourself if the dynamic principles taught in this text would also best prepare your students for the real world.
At a perfect introductory price for tight school budgets:
only $8.79 paperback / $17.97 hardcover per student - purchased in bulk
by educational institutions [40% Discount (38 books minimum for bulk purchase)].
[Plus shipping].
Inexpensive enough to ask parents to purchase the text.
Educators
More on Cost Considerations
Three Different Approaches to Acquiring
Pay-in-Advance, Print-on-Demand 'Beta' Version Texts
There are advantages to buying a P-O-D 'beta' version textbook, if you can get one.
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The first and foremost advantage to purchasing a 'beta' version is gaining the same information as the 'alpha' version for eighty percent less cost. Yes, it's 'beta' version, and yes, it's probably a little more awkwardly written than you're used to teaching from, but that's a small price to pay for such a small price to pay.
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A donation from a chamber of commerce, business association, or other local business group can easily cover the costs of a whole junior and senior class [they can also provide real life observation and hands on 'apprenticeship' or 'in-the-field' lab in their businesses of what the students will be learning from the book]. They support sports. Now let's get them to support the student's futures.
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In an economic pinch, a school can buy the books at a bulk 40% discount and ask parents to pay full 'beta' version 'list price' to the school.
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It's still cheap for the parents, and the revenues gained from those that can afford the full price can pay for those who, even at a 'beta' version price, still cannot afford to buy the book for their children. In this scenario, every two parents who can afford the book pays for one that can't. Education goes on in spite of economic difficulties.
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In a deeper pinch, parents can be asked to purchase the book through Amazon or Barnes and Noble. In this case, the class becomes an 'elective' — parents who want their kids in the class can buy the book for them. [Not exactly fair to the kids who may need it most, though, and counter productive to reducing poverty created by lack of education in practical economic principles.]
Costs of 'Alpha' Versions From Commercial Publishers
Sales from this 'beta' version will pay for 'alpha' version professional writing, editing, etc. When the 'alpha' version becomes available, this 'beta' version may be required by the publisher to come off sale. The average bookstore version should cost about $35.00. A high quality, 'specifically designed for high school' educational version will probably cost about $100.00. That's the world we live in. Scoop these up now.
How to Buy In Bulk at 40% Discount
for Educators
The
Ingram Content Group
IngramContent.com/libraries/ordering-tools
IngramContent.com/educators/ipage
The printers of this text only sell directly to resellers [bookstores, online outlets, etc.] educators, and libraries. Ingram Content Group is one of the biggest publishing companies in the world, and recognizes the need to make it easy for educators, libraries, and other organizations to buy in bulk at a discount:
Click on this link to learn about and create an account on Ingram's ordering system, iPage: IngramContent.com/educators/ipage. Educators need only create an account in order to purchase in bulk [38 books minimum] and acquire this text for students at a 40% discount.
Click on this link to learn about ordering through your state or local library system, iPage: IngramContent.com/libraries/ordering-tools. Sometimes the bureaucracy of an educational spending allocation system can make it difficult to get the permissions to create an account for your state, town, or school's purchasing of textbooks [although, likely, your state or city department of education probably has an account already]. It is very likely, however, that your state or city library system has an active account. And it takes little effort for a library to create one.
Ingram has a simple, yet complete, system already set up for any educational organization called iPage. That means that any educational organization can ask their state library to help them purchase this text for employees or students, or if that becomes inconvenient, create an account and purchase these texts in bulk themselves.