Economics and Economic Change

Preface

Introduction

Part 1 Are we living through a new industrial revolution?

1 Living and working in the 'new economy'

2 Information technology: a new era?

3 Innovation, markets and industrial change

Part 2 How do firms compete? Markets and policy

4 Monopoly power and innovation

5 Competitive markets

6 Strategic competition: conflict and co-operation

Part 3 What makes an economy successful? Work, well-being and the state

7 The labour market

8 Welfare: from income to well-being

9 The economics of governance

10 Health and health care: markets, ethics and inequality

Answers to exercises

References

Acknowledgements

Index