* Presents many of the microeconomic and macroeconomic theories and schools of thought not generally covered in mainstream principles of economics textbooks
* Each chapter starts with a short "refresher" of standard neoclassical economic modelling before demonstrating how that model is distorted by people, problems and events in the real world to provide students with a more realistic picture of how the economy works
* Updates throughout and new material on populism, racism, inequality, climate change and the covid-19 pandemic
* Now has online supplements: quiz questions for students and PowerPoint slides for instructors
