Economics: AND Economics Workbook
7th Edition
Published on 1. September 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-07-710367-5 (ISBN)
Description
TEXTBOOK The new seventh edition aims to teach students how economics really works in the world today. Maintaining its popular clear and unpretentious style, the new edition engages with the latest theoretical developments in economics. Its fresh new approach to modern macroeconomics reflects the latest shifts in monetary and fiscal policy in the UK, Europe and beyond. This authoritative textbook challenges the student to apply up-to-date economic theory to the real world, marrying authoritative insight with thought-provoking new boxes, current examples and stimulating questions, making economics relevant, exciting and accessible. WORKBOOK This revised edition of the economics student workbook is the perfect learning companion to the seventh edition of Economics, 7e. It contains Key Learning Blocks, Important concepts and technical terms, Exercises, True/False checks, Extracts from the recent press, Questions for thought and Answers to all the questions.
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Edition
7th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 197 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-07-710367-5 (9780077103675)
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Content
Part One Introduction: 1. Economics and the economy; 2. Tools of economic analysis; 3. Demand, supply, and the market; 4. Elasticities of demand and supply. Part Two Microeconomics: 5. Consumer choice and demand decisions. 6. Introducing supply decisions; 7. Costs and supply; 8. Perfect competition and pure monopoly; 9. Market structure and imperfect competition; 10. The labour market; 11. Different types of labour; 12. Factor markets and income distribution; 13. Risk and information; 14. The information economy. Part Three Welfare Economics: 15. Welfare economics; 16. Government spending and revenue; 17. Industrial policy and competition policy; 18. Natural monopoly: public or private? Part Four Macroeconomics: 19: Intro to macroeconomics; 20: Output and aggregate demand; 21: Fiscal policy and foreign trade; 22. Money and Banking; 23. Interest rates and monetary transmission; 24. Monetary and fiscal policy; 25. Aggregate supply, prices and the adjustment to shocks; 26. Inflation, expectations, and credibility; 27. Unemployment; 28. Exchange rates and the balance of payments; 29: Open economy macroeconomics; 30. Economic Growth; 31. Business cycles; 32. Macroeconomics: taking stock. Part Five The World Economy: 33: International trade; 34: Exchange rate regimes 35: European integration. (Part contents)