Our Economics shelf spans introductory textbooks, foundational works by major economists, and more accessible general-audience books explaining economic ideas for a broader readership. It is a natural companion to our business section, though with a heavier focus on theory, policy, and history rather than practical management.

As with business titles, economics textbooks are revised frequently, and older editions remain perfectly useful for understanding core theory, which makes this a category where used copies offer strong value for students working through a reading list on a budget.

We also carry books on Canadian economic history and policy, along with broader works on trade, development, labour, and monetary theory for readers interested in economics beyond the classroom.

A smaller shelf covers resource and environmental economics, a subject with obvious local relevance given how much of the Bow Valley’s economy depends on tourism, conservation, and the surrounding national park.

Students account for a large share of the traffic through this section, and we try to keep enough copies of commonly assigned introductory titles in stock through the academic year to make a used textbook a realistic option rather than an occasional lucky find.

We also keep a modest run of economic history and history of economic thought, which readers often find a more approachable entry point than a technical textbook.

Because so many of our customers are students working from a specific reading list, we try to hold back at least one clean, lightly marked copy of the most commonly assigned introductory titles whenever we can, rather than selling through the entire stack to the first buyer.

• Introductory and course textbooks
• Foundational economic theory
• History of economic thought
• Canadian economic history and policy
• Trade, development, and labour economics
• Monetary theory and banking
• Resource and environmental economics
• General-audience economics writing

Because economic ideas date less than the specific statistics used to illustrate them, an older textbook often remains a perfectly rigorous way to learn core theory, provided a reader is not relying on it for current data.

We are always happy to flag which of our economics titles skew more historical and which still function well as an up-to-date course text, rather than letting a student find out halfway through a term.

If you are not sure which edition your course actually requires, bring in the syllabus or course code and we will do our best to match it, or point you toward the specific problem sets you will need.

Course textbooks reach us with highlighting and marginal notes more often than any other category. We grade markings honestly, since heavy highlighting genuinely affects how usable a book is for the next reader.

If your course specifies an edition, check it before ordering. Problem sets and chapter numbering shift between editions even where the theory does not.

Where we have more than one edition of the same title in stock, we will note the edition number clearly on each listing, so you are never guessing which one is on the shelf.