Excelonomics: Teaching Economics with Excel-Teaching Excel with Economics, Vol 1: Microeconomics

Excelonomics is a supplement for principles-level microeconomics courses that equips business students to build economic models and analyze scenarios using the world’s leading spreadsheet app. With nearly all business school students required to take at least one economics course, Excelonomics adds value to the business curriculum by smoothly integrating in-depth training in Excel with core microeconomics concepts.

Excelonomics teaches students how to set up, solve, and graph principles-level economic models in Excel. Unlike other Excel tutorials, Excelonomics provides detailed, application-specific training with Excel’s most powerful modeling and analysis tools, with strong emphasis on Excel’s most used and most powerful functions that allow almost infinite flexibility in modeling and analyzing economic and financial scenarios.

Excelonomics provides step-by-step instructions complete with screenshots and detailed tutorial videos for Excel exercises on the following topics:

• Specialization and trade
• Supply and demand
• Demand elasticity
• Firm costs and profit maximization (competitive market)
• Debt and investing scenarios