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of Pennsylvania; William K. Tabb, Queens College, City
University of New York (retired);Sarinda Taengnoi, University
of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; Henry Terrell, University of Maryland;
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Toma, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Brian Trinque,
University of Texas, Austin; Boone A. Turchi, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill;Nora Underwood, University of
Central Florida;J. S. Uppal, State University of New York,
Albany; John Vahaly, University of Louisville; Jose J. Vazquez-
Cognet, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Daniel
Vazzana, Georgetown College;Roger H. von Haefen, North
Carolina State University; Andreas Waldkirch, Colby College;
Christopher Waller, University of Notre Dame; Gregory
Wassall, Northeastern University; Robert Whaples, Wake
Forest University;Thomas White, Assumption College;Jennifer
P. Wissink, Cornell University; Mark Witte, Northwestern
University; Kristen M. Wolfe, St. Johns River Community
College;Larry Wolfenbarger, Macon State College; Louise B.
Wolitz, University of Texas, Austin; Gavin Wright, Stanford
University; Bill Yang, Georgia Southern University; Jason
Zimmerman,South Dakota State University.
We must also thank the many people at Worth Publishers
for their contributions and the talented team of consult-
ants and contributors they assembled to work with us.
Executive Editor Ann Heath was a mastermind behind the
scenes, juggling documents, encouraging excellence, and
gracefully putting out fires. Dora Figueiredo, assistant edi-
tor extraordinaire, assisted with manuscript preparation
and helped to coordinate the impressive collection of print
supplements that accompany our book.
As in Krugman and Wells’ Economics,2e, Andreas Bentz
did yeoman’s work, granting us the ability to focus on larg-
er issues because we could trust him to focus on the
details. Andreas helped to ensure consistency and accuracy
as we developed the manuscript. We count ourselves fortu-
nate to have Andreas help us with this adaptation.
Development editor Rebecca Kohn’s sharp eye and com-
monsense appraisals were critical in helping us to make
good decisions about how to rework the material from
Krugman and Well’s Econcomics,2e to meet the organiza-
tional needs of this book. Executive Development Editor
Sharon Balbos played an important role in ensuring that all
of our new figures were consistent with the established
styles. Many thanks go to Eric P. Chiang, Florida Atlantic
University, for his invaluable contributions in accuracy
checking the end-of-module CYU and Tackle the Test ques-
tions and the end-of-section problems and solutions. Eric
also brought us James Watson, who assisted us with
extremely quick and thorough data research for updating
the content and for accuracy checking second pages. We
also thank Dan Heath for his close review of second pages.We have had an incredible production and design team on
this book, people whose hard work, creativity, dedication,
and patience continue to amaze us. Thank you all: Tracey
Kuehn and Kerry O’Shaughnessy for producing this book;
Kevin Kall, Lissi Sigillo, and TSI Graphics for their beauti-
ful interior design and the absolutely spectacular cover;
Barbara Seixas, who worked her magic once again on the
manufacturing end and despite the vagaries of the project
schedule; Cecilia Varas and Dena Dibiglio Betz for photo
research; Stacey Alexander, Laura McGinn, and Jenny Chiu
for coordinating the production on all supplemental mate-
rials. Thanks to our marketing managers, Cindi Weiss,
Nicole Sheppard, and Janie Pierce-Bratcher for their tireless
advocacy of this book, and to Marie McHale for her work
on the media.It is a thrill to behold a book that one has written; but it’s a
particularly special thrill to behold a book so beautifully
published.Margaret Ray David Anderson