TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coulter,Steve
TI  - Everyday economics: a user's guide to the modern economy 
SN  - 9781911116363
AV  - HB 180 C855e 2017
U1  - 330 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Agenda Publishing
KW  - Economics
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Economía
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 1. Economics; what is it good for?2. Knowledge is power: education and training3. Let's get busy: work and occupations4. Get well soon: health and healthcare5. Making the world go around: money and personal finance6. Home sweet home: the housing market7. Shop 'til you drop: shopping and consumption8. From cradle to grave: benefits and welfare
N2  - Most economics is a top-down analysis that simplifies and reduces the huge varieties among individuals to a predictable range of characteristics that lend themselves to systematic analysis. This book eschews this conventional perspective, which sees national economies as simply agglomerations of the activities of millions of people, and instead explores the role played by the individual in the economy, in particular, how the individual experiences the economy. In so doing, the book is able to illuminate the economic landscape for the nontechnical reader in a much more engaging and accessible way than conventional textbooks. By placing the individual front and center in its analysis, the book is able to demonstrate how the things we experience, need, and consume fit into the fast-changing and interdependent global economic setting. It shows the role of government, markets, and welfare in shaping our lives, and builds on the latest economic research and data to provide an overview of the workings of the economy that takes as its starting point the interface between the individual and the system overall.
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