Essentials of Economics
I think it is more reader friendly than other texts. In addition, it uses both numeric and/or graphical examples, which is very useful for the students."We used to use Case and Fair's text. Mankiw seems to be a better text because it actually follows through with giving applications to what he includes in the book. For example, there is much better material in Mankiw about consumer surplus, producer surplus, government policies and interventions in the market."Very student friendly text. Makes economics easy to understand. Some of the other texts would take a lot of reading to explain an idea.