What Is the Single Most Important Purpose of Your Textbook

question 98

Multiple Choice

What is the single most important purpose of your textbook?

• A) to teach you about the effects of the government's economic policies
• B) to teach you the language of economics
• C) to teach you the economist's way of thinking
• D) to teach you how to make good consumer choices

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Definitions:

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