Includes references and index.

Chapter 1. Revisiting economics as a social science -- Chapter 2. Economics as an applied science -- Chapter 3. Basic economic problems and the Philippines Socieconomic development in the twenty-first century -- Chapter 4. Supply and demand dynamics -- Chapter 5. Labor supply and the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), wages, and population growth -- Chapter 6. The Philippine peso and international currencies -- Chapter 7. Market structures -- Chapter 8. Housing starts, Philippine housing shortage, and the real estate industry -- Chapter 9. Investment and interest rates -- Chapter 10. Supply shocks and the minimum wage -- Chapter 11, Transfers and taxes -- Chapter 12. Prices, tools, and techniques -- Chapter 13. Types of industries -- Chapter 14. Identification of business opportunities -- Chapter 15. Consumers and households -- Chapter 16. Suppliers and investors -- Chapter 17. The role of government -- Chapter 18. International trade and the open economy -- Glossary -- Index -- References.

This textbook, entitled Applied Economics, attempts to inform and establish the Accountability, Business, and Management (ABM) Strand as an important aspect of the senior high school curriculum. The textbook provides upright guidelines for the career and life choices in economics.
Chapters 1-3 provide an introduction to economics; chapters 4-11 discuss the principles of applied economics; chapters 12-14 cover industry and environmental analysis: business opportunities identification; and chapters 15-18 deal with socioeconomic impact study of economics. Economics can be explained with words, using mathematics, and graphs. Students are expected to familiarized themselves to, at least, one method for each topic on economics.
Finally, this textbook is presented as a straightforward scale for decent lifestyles and challenges. As a parting shot, Durant (1926) wrote in his preface to The Story of Philosophy that "we are all imperfect teachers but we may be forgiven if we have advance the matter a little, and have done our best and announce the prolog and retire and after us better players will come."