Book excerpt: Economics is an interesting subject when simplified. Often students are not at home with the subject because of dearth of story-telling economics. That explains why you have this book in your hands. This book is an outcome of threadbare discussions with tens of thousands of students appearing for the Civil Services Examination. The book has a strong conventional and conceptual foundations, thereby it is meant to be the base book for covering economics for all competitive examinations in the country-particularly, the Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). This book addresses the needs of the aspirants completely as per the new UPSC trend as it makes concepts amply clear at the basic level; covers facts in the most updated manner; connects them dynamically to the current developments; roots them in the Indian context; and links them with the world. Features: 1.Helpful aide for Prelim and Main examination 2. Supplemented with related suitable graphs and images 3.Includes significant segments of latest Economic Survey 4.Difficult concepts are explained in easy-to-understand language