Reading and Understanding Economics, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (November 27, 2008) © 2009

  • Kevin Boakes Kingston University
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Reading and Understanding Economics enables you to get to grips with all the issues in today’s economy discussed at length everywhere you look in the media leaving you armed with a new vocabulary of key economic terms ready to conduct your own analysis next time you read a newspaper or listen to the news for business or pleasure.

Table of contents

  1. Topic 1 Introducing Economics: Scarcity and Choice
  2. Topic 2 The economics of demand and supply
  3. Topic 3 Costs: In the short and the long run
  4. Topic 4 Competition policy in action
  5. Topic 5 Market failure and government intervention
  6. Topic 6 The role of government in the economy
  7. Topic 7 Business organisations (from large to small companies
  8. Topic 8 The economics of the labour market
  9. Topic 9 Macroeconomic policy: unemployment, inflation and growth
  10. Topic 10 Money and interest rates
  11. Topic 11 Fiscal Policy
  12. Topic 12 International Economics – balance of payments and exchange rates

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