Economics Now - Leaving Certificate - Textbook & Exam Handbook - Set - 2nd / Updated Edition (2025)

Economics Now - Leaving Certificate - Textbook & Exam Handbook - Set - 2nd / Updated Edition (2025) 

A student-friendly, exam-focused textbook, fully in line with the Leaving Certificate Economics specification, that promotes a strong understanding of the subject, and translates that into great exam technique.

• Fully up-to-date facts and figures on issues, topics and statistics
• Updated with the latest guidance on the Research Project Brief
• Real examples from Ireland and the world, as required in the exam
• Fully updated Exam Handbook reflecting current exam and marking

Retaining all the great features from the first edition, this Updated Edition includes:

• Topics revised using exam and exam-style questions, scaffolded with teacher prompts
• Up-to-date figures and statistics, including budget, IDA and CSO data
• Updated and new topics, e.g. EVs, vapes, minimum wage, gender pay gap, cost of living crisis, deposit return scheme, production possibility frontier
• New and updated exam and sample questions
• QR codes to up-to-date SEC exam questions relevant to each chapter/topic

Exam Handbook

The FREE Updated Exam Handbook provides exam questions and guidance and templates for the Research Project.

• UPDATED! Research report marking scheme
• NEW! Sample Research Study Template
• UPDATED! Current Issues and Topics section