Makes economics stick. Meets students where they are. An innovative instructor uses his tested insights and successful teaching practices to create a truly student-centered approach: real-world examples, pedagogy developed in his own classrooms, and problem solving tools that resonate with today’s students.
It's a good textbook, full stop. It's more amusing to read if one of the authors is your professor, of course. In any event, it's a straightforward introduction to macroeconomics that enables one to understand basically all mass-media macroeconomic journalism and analysis.