TY - BOOK AU - David Begg, AU - fischer, Stanley AU - Dornbusch, Rudiger TI - Economics SN - 9780070841680 U1 - 330 PY - 1987/// CY - McGraw-Hill PB - London KW - Economics N1 - Includes index; An introduction to economics and the economy -- The tools of economic analysis -- Demand, Supply, and the market -- The effect of price and income on demand quantities -- The theory of consumer choice -- Output supply by firms: revenue and cost -- Developing the theory of supply: costs and production -- Perfect competition and pure monopoly: The limiting cases of market structure -- market structure and imperfect competition -- The analysis of factor markets: Labour -- Human capital, discrimination, and trade unions -- Capital and land: completing the analysis of factor markets -- Coping with risk in economic life -- Introduction to welfare economics -- Taxes and public spending: the Government and resource allocation -- Competition policy and industrial policy -- Nationalization and privatization -- General equilibrium and welfare economics -- Introduction to Macroeconomics and National income accounting -- The Determination of national income -- Aggregate demand, fiscal policy, and foreign trade -- Money and modern banking -- Central banking and the monetary system -- monetary and fiscal policy in a closed economy -- Aggregate supply, the price level, and the speed of adjustment -- unemployment -- Inflation -- Open economy Macroeconomics -- Long-term growth and short-term fluctuations -- macroeconomics: Where do we stand? -- international trade and commercial policy -- The International monetary systemand international finance -- Problems of developing countries in the world economy N2 - Contains chapter overview and outline, learning objectives, key concept review, helpful hints, multiple choice questions and problem solving questions ER -