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Economics David Begg

Economics By David Begg

Economics by David Begg


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Summary

Features coverage of economic principles. This book includes review questions that vary in level of difficulty, with answers at the back. It includes material reflecting economic changes on climate change, globalisation, and the European union.

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Economics by David Begg

Economics by Begg, Fischer and Dornbusch is the definitive economics textbook, providing students with the essential coverage for their economic principles course. Thoroughly revised and updated, the new edition features:

  • New Activity Boxes in every chapter, to encourage students to apply their learning in a real-world context
  • New and updated example boxes in every chapter, drawn from companies and products such as easyJet, iPod and Skype and including contemporary topics such as music downloads, Live 8, international trade and house prices
  • Updated economic data in every chapter
  • New review questions that vary in level of difficulty, with answers at the back of the book. These allow flexibility for students at different learning stages, with the opportunity to check understanding as they work through the book
  • New and updated material reflecting recent economic changes on climate change, globalisation and the European union

    Lecturers - please contact your local sales representative to find out more about the Interactive Student Workbook and NetTutor supplements that support this book.

About David Begg

David Begg is Principal of the Tanaka Business School at Imperial College London. He has been a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (a network of leading European economists) since its inception in 1984. David's research focuses mainly on monetary policy, exchange rates, monetary union, and economic transition. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He co-authored several of the CEPR annual reports in the series he helped found: Monitoring the European Central Bank, and Monitoring European Integration. The 1997 MEI Report, EMU: Getting the Endgame Right, changed the policy that the European Union adopted to launch the euro in 1999. He was also founding Managing Editor of Economic Policy, now an official journal of the European Economic Association.

Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction

1. Economics and the economy
2. Tools of economic analysis
3. Demand, supply and the market

Part Two: Positive microeconomics

4. Elasticities of demand and supply
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 ecomonics

15. Welfare economics
16. Government spending and revenue
17. Industrial policy and competition policy
18. Natural monopoly: public or private?

Part Four: Macroeconomics

19. Introduction 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 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
36. Poverty, development and globalisation

Appendix: Answers to review questions
Glossary
Index

Additional information

GOR002891062
9780077117870
0077117875
Economics by David Begg
Used - Very Good
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
2008-02-01
799
N/A
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