"McConnell and Brue's Microeconomics, Brief Edition" comes from the same author team as the market-leading "Principles of Microeconomics" textbook. It continues to be innovative while teaching students in a clear, unbiased way. Like the 18th edition, "Microeconomics, Brief Edition" has 3 main goals: help the beginning student master the principles essential for understanding the economizing problem, specific economic issues, and the policy alternatives; help the student understand and apply the economic perspective and reason accurately and objectively about economic matters; and promote a lasting student interest in economics and the economy. Although the "Brief Edition" is a derivative of "Microeconomics 18e", it is not a cut-and-paste book that simply eliminates several chapters of "Economics 18e" and reorders and renumbers the retained content. Instead, "Microeconomics, Brief Edition" is a very concise, highly integrated economics textbook that is distinct in purpose, style, and coverage from "Microeconomics 18e".