Economics

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-954302-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 195 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 1337 g

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Accompanied by an Online Resource Centre comprising:

For students:
Multiple Choice Questions
Oxford NewsNow
Web links,
Flashcard glossary

For lecturers:
Test bank
Customisable PowerPoint slides

Zielgruppe

First year Economics undergraduates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Introduction to Economics
1: The Nature of Economics
2: Scarcity, Governments and Economics
Part Two: Microeconomics
3: Supply and Demand
4: Elasticity of Demand and Supply
5: Governments and Markets
6: Household Behaviour
7: Introducing the Theory of the Firm
8: Production Functions and Methods
9: Perfect Competition
10: Monopoly and Monopolistic Competition
11: Oligopoly
12: Governments, Monopolies and Oligopolies
13: Governments and Resource Allocation
14: Markets for Labour
15: Land and Capital
16: Governments and the Redistribution of Income
Part Three: Macroeconomics
17: Introduction to Macroeconomics
18: The National Accounts
19: GDP and the Multiplier Model
20: Money, Banks and Interest Rates
21: GDP and Prices: the AS-AD model
22: Unemployment
23: Inflation and Unemployment
24: Business Cycles
25: Economic Growth
26: Monetary, Fiscal and Supply-side Policies
27: International Trade
28: International Payments

Über Autor(innen)

David King is emeritus Professor of Public Economics at the University of Stirling. He studied economics at the University of Oxford and the University of York. His main research interest has always been the economics of central and local government finance: he has published widely in this field, and has been consulted by ministers and officials in 20 countries, including China, much of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, often acting
as a consultant to the World Bank or the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. He has always had a keen interest in teaching as well as research, and enjoys teaching in all areas of the subject.