I know it takes much more effort, but I wouldn't assign a textbook at
all. Instead, I would pick out a selection of articles on
macroeconomic topics you think are important and assign them. Early in
the class, I would do things written at a newspaper level. towards the
middle I'd start easing them into journal articles.

Remember Keynes famously taught by coming into class with a newspaper,
reading an article out loud, then teaching the material necessary for
understanding

Also thinking at a social level, the extra demand you lay on them in
such a class might be balanced out by the fact that you aren't forcing
them to spend any money on books they will at most skim.

If this is impossible, I'd assign a history of economic thought text
like Hunt's or Lefteris Tsoulfidis's.

-- 
-Nathan Tankus
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