TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harvey, Jack
TI  - Modern economics: an introduction for business and professional students 
AV  - HB 171 .H37 1988
PY  - 1988///
CY  - London
PB  - Macmillan Education
KW  - Economía
N1  - Preface to the first edition, xii --; Preface to the fifth edition, xiv --; Guidance to the student, xv --; I. Introduction, 3 --; 1. What economics is about, 3 --; 2. Methods of allocating resources, 15 --; II. What to produce, 27 --; 3. How price is formed in the free market, 27 --; 4. Applications of demand and supply analysis, 45 --; 5. A further look at demand, 53 --; III. How to produce-the theory of production, 73 --; 6. The firm, 73 --; 7. The organisation and scale of production, 100 --; 8. The distribution of goods to the consumer, 111 --; 9. The Location of production, 121 --; 10. Combining the factors of production, 126 --; 11. Deciding on the most profitable output, 132 --; 12. The supply curve of the industry under perfect competition, 149 --; 13. Monopoly, 163 --; 14. Imperfect competition, 184 --; IV. For whom? how the factors of production are rewarded - the theory of distribution, 195 --; 15. The marginal productivity theory of distribution, 195 --; 16. Labour and wages, 203 --; 17. Capital and interest, 223 --; 18. Land and rent, 229 --; 19. Entrepreneurship and profit, 238 --; V. Money and financial institutions, 247 --; 20. Money and the rate of interest, 247 --; 21. The money markets and the capital market, 262 --; 22. Commercial banks, 278 --; 23. The Bank of England, 286 --; VI. The government and the economy, 295 --; 24. The National Income, 295 --; 25. Full employment: a survey of the problem, 312 --; 26. Cyclical fluctuations in income and employment, 318 --; 27. Inflation, 354 --; 28. Regional and occupational unemployment, 367 --; 29. Government finance, 377 --; VII. International trade, 397 --; 30. The nature of international trade, 397 --; 31. The balance of payments, 412 --; 32. Foreign exchange rates, 420 --; 33. The correction of a balance-of-payments disequilibrium, 425 --; 34. The European economic community, 437 --; VIII. Some current economic problems of the UK, 449 --; 35. The Population of the UK, 449 --; 36. Growth, the balance of payments, inflation and unemployment, 465 --; Index, 481
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