This book provides the instructor with a comprehensive collection of supplemental essays to assign alongside normal textbook work. The readings are arranged according to the normal introduction of concepts in the principles of microeconomics curriculum. Each section includes simple essays which may excite the student s imagination and prompt them into the economic way of thinking, as well as more challenging articles for the advanced student wanting more. Each contribution has been carefully selected for its clarity, applicability, accessibility, and good use of theory. The careful reader will come away from this anthology with a strong economic intuition, ready to face life, public policy, and more advanced economic study. Dr. Thomas C. Rustici is the Freedom Professor of Economics at the Fund for American Studies located at Georgetown University and Assistant Professor of Economics and Undergraduate Coordinator for the Department of Economics at George Mason University. He has taught in eight colleges and universities around the world. In his 17 ½ years of teaching, he has instructed over 30,000 students. His publications are found in a range of academic and scholarly journals and think tanks including The Cato Journal, Religion and Liberty, The Free Market, Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Apple Daily, and others. He co-authored the popular textbook series entitled Stossel in the Classroom for John Stossel at ABC News (Greed, Free Loaders and Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?). He is also the author of the economic history text Lessons from the Great Depression. Carrie Milton and Nathanael Snow are graduate students in Economics at George Mason University.