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The rough guide to economics / Andrew Mell & Oliver Walker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Rough guides (Series)Publisher: London : Rough Guides Ltd, 2014Description: vi, 362 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781409363972
  • 140936397X
Other title:
  • Rough guide to economics : from first principles to the financial crisis
  • Economics
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330
LOC classification:
  • HB 171 M524r 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
The basics. What is economics? -- The economic mindset: homo economicus vs. behavioural economics -- Markets and competition- the invisible hand. Demand -- Production and supply -- Markets, equilibrium, and the welfare theorems -- Market and government failure. Externalities and public goods -- Monopoly -- Further topics in microeconomics. Game theory and oligopoly -- Information and contracting -- The economics of finance -- Macroeconomics- "the economy". Basics of national income accounting -- Economic growth -- The classical model -- The Great Depression and Keynes -- The Phillips curve, Friedman, and monetarism -- Open-economy macroeconomics -- Hot Topics. Globalization and international trade -- Development economics -- The financial crisis of 2007-8.
The basics -- Markets and competition: the invisible hand -- Market and government failure -- Further topics in microeconomics -- Macroeconomics: "the economy" -- Hot topics.
Summary: An introduction to economics, from its foundations up to the financial crisis of 2007-08 and its resulting global problems. You'll discover the relationships between economics and globalization, climate change, poverty-- and even smoking and nuclear war.
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HB 171 M524r 2014 The rough guide to economics / HG 3881 C641f 2010 Financial globalization, economic growth, and the crisis of 2007-09 /

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-350) and index.

The basics. What is economics? -- The economic mindset: homo economicus vs. behavioural economics -- Markets and competition- the invisible hand. Demand -- Production and supply -- Markets, equilibrium, and the welfare theorems -- Market and government failure. Externalities and public goods -- Monopoly -- Further topics in microeconomics. Game theory and oligopoly -- Information and contracting -- The economics of finance -- Macroeconomics- "the economy". Basics of national income accounting -- Economic growth -- The classical model -- The Great Depression and Keynes -- The Phillips curve, Friedman, and monetarism -- Open-economy macroeconomics -- Hot Topics. Globalization and international trade -- Development economics -- The financial crisis of 2007-8.

The basics -- Markets and competition: the invisible hand -- Market and government failure -- Further topics in microeconomics -- Macroeconomics: "the economy" -- Hot topics.

An introduction to economics, from its foundations up to the financial crisis of 2007-08 and its resulting global problems. You'll discover the relationships between economics and globalization, climate change, poverty-- and even smoking and nuclear war.

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