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Preface -- Economics and the Economy -- The Market -- Markets and Economic Efficiency -- The Producer -- Market Structures -- Market Failure Versus Government Failure -- Factor Markets -- Distribution of Income -- The Objectives of Macroeconomic Policy -- Economic Growth -- Unemployment: Causes and Cures -- Inflation: Causes and Cures -- Business Cycles: Causes and Control -- Stabilizing the Economy -- International Trade -- Balance-of-Payments and Exchange Rates -- Issues in the International Economy -- Answers to Self-Test Questions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- about the authors -- Contents -- Contents -- Contents -- preface -- Our approach -- Content and structure -- In summary -- Key issues -- Concepts boxes -- Business case studies -- Everyday economics -- Applying economics to business -- Reflecting on economics -- Think points -- Economics at work -- Summary -- Key terms -- Questions for discussion -- One thing you should read -- guide to the book -- online resources -- 1: economics and business -- 1.1 Introduction: what is economics? -- What is produced? -- How is production organized? -- For whom is production organized? -- 1.2 Why economics matters to business, indeed to everyone -- 1.3 Understanding the roles of firms, consumers and government in markets -- What is the role of firms in markets? -- The role of consumers in markets -- The role of government in markets -- Aircraft -- Cars -- Mobile phone services -- Soft drinks -- 1.4 Scarcity, choice and opportunity cost -- 1.5 Opportunity cost and incentives -- 1.6 Microeconomics, macroeconomics and business -- Interest rates -- Exchange rates -- Confronting the 2008-9 recession -- 1.7 Positive and normative economics -- 2: the market -- 2.1 Introduction: the market, an old but still very useful institution -- 2.2 Consumers and demand in the market -- 2.3 Firms and supply in the market -- 2.4 The market: bringing demand and supply together -- The equilibrium price and market equilibrium -- Reflections on equilibrium price and market equilibria -- T-shirts -- Tuna fish -- Gold -- 2.5 Applying market analysis 1: the example of economic integration in the European Union -- 2.6 Elasticity in the market -- 2.7 Price elasticity of demand -- 2.8 Determinants of price elasticity of demand -- The availability of substitutes -- The proportion of income spent on a good or service, or why have Freddos more than doubled in price? -- Time.

This groundbreaking title brings together a critical selection of key papers by the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics that have helped shape the development and present state of economics. The editors have organised this comprehensive series by theme and focuses on those Laureates working in the same broad area of study. The careful selection of papers is set in context by an insightful introduction to the Laureates' careers and main published works. This landmark title will be an essential reference for scholars throughout the world

This groundbreaking title brings together a critical selection of key papers by the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics that have helped shape the development and present state of economics. The editors have organised this comprehensive series by theme and focuses on those Laureates working in the same broad area of study. The careful selection of papers is set in context by an insightful introduction to the Laureates' careers and main published works. This landmark title will be an essential reference for scholars throughout the world

This groundbreaking title brings together a critical selection of key papers by the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics that have helped shape the development and present state of economics. The editors have organised this comprehensive series by theme and focuses on those Laureates working in the same broad area of study. The careful selection of papers is set in context by an insightful introduction to the Laureates' careers and main published works. This landmark title will be an essential reference for scholars throughout the world

This groundbreaking title brings together a critical selection of key papers by the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics that have helped shape the development and present state of economics. The editors have organised this comprehensive series by theme and focuses on those Laureates working in the same broad area of study. The careful selection of papers is set in context by an insightful introduction to the Laureates' careers and main published works. This landmark title will be an essential reference for scholars throughout the world

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Simon Kuznets (1933), 'National Income', in Edwin R.A. Seligman (ed) and Alvin Johnson (ed) (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Volume Eleven: Morbidity-Parties, Political, New York, NY: Macmillan, 205-24 -- Simon Kuznets (1955), 'Economic Growth and Income Inequality', American Economic Review, XLV (1), March, 1-28 -- Simon Kuznets (1971), 'Level and Variability of Rates of Growth', in Economic Growth of Nations: Total Output and Production Structure, Chapter I, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1-50 -- Simon Kuznets (1973), 'Modern Economic Growth: Findings and Reflections', American Economic Review, 63 (3), June, 247-58 -- Theodore W. Schultz (1950), 'Reflections on Poverty Within Agriculture', Journal of Political Economy, LVIII (1), February, 1-15 -- T.W. Schultz (1951), 'The Declining Economic Importance of Agricultural Land', Economic Journal, LXI (244), December, 725-40 -- Theodore W. Schultz (1961), 'Investment in Human Capital', American Economic Review, LI (1), March, 1-17 -- Theodore W. Schultz (1964), 'The Problem and Its Setting', in Transforming Traditional Agriculture, Chapter 1, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 3-23 -- Theodore W. Schultz (1975), 'The Value of the Ability to Deal with Disequilibria', Journal of Economic Literature, 13 (3), September, 827-46 -- Theodore W. Schultz (1980), 'Nobel Lecture: The Economics of Being Poor', Journal of Political Economy, 88 (4), August, 639-51 -- W. Arthur Lewis (1954), 'Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour', Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, XXII (2), May, 139-91 -- W. Arthur Lewis (1958), 'Unlimited Labour: Further Notes', Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, XXVI (1), January, 1-32 -- W. Arthur Lewis (1965), 'Richard T. Ely Lecture: A Review of Economic Development', American Economic Review, 55 (1-2), March, 1-16 -- W. Arthur Lewis (1980), 'The Slowing Down of the Engine of Growth', American Economic Review, 70 (4), September, 555-64 -- Robert M. Solow (1956), 'A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth', Quarterly Journal of Economics, LXX (1), February, 65-94 -- Robert M. Solow (1960), 'Investment and Technical Progress', in Kenneth J. Arrow (ed), Samuel Karlin (ed) and Patrick Suppes (ed) (eds), Mathematical Methods in Social Sciences, Chapter 7, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 89-104 -- Paul A. Samuelson and Robert M. Solow (1960), 'Problem of Achieving and Maintaining a Stable Price Level: Analytical Aspects of Anti-Inflation Policy', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 50 (2), May, 177-9 -- Alan S. Blinder and Robert M. Solow (1973), 'Does Fiscal Policy Matter?' Journal of Public Economics, 2 (4), November, 319-37 -- Robert M. Solow (1980), 'On Theories of Unemployment', American Economic Review, 70 (1), March, 1-11

Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (1991), 'Hours and Employment Variation in Business Cycle Theory', Economic Theory, 1 (1), January, 63-81 -- David K. Backus, Patrick J. Kehoe and Finn E. Kydland (1992), 'International Real Business Cycles', Journal of Political Economy, 100 (4), August, 745-75 -- Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (1996), 'The Computational Experiment: An Econometric Tool', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10 (1), Winter, 69-85

Gerard Debreu and Herbert Scarf (1963), 'A Limit Theorem on the Core of an Economy', International Economic Review, 4 (3), September, 235-46 -- Gerard Debreu (1970), 'Economies with a Finite Set of Equilibria', Econometrica, 38 (3), May, 387-92 -- Gerard Debreu (1972), 'Smooth Preferences', Econometrica, 40 (4), July, 603-15 -- Gerard Debreu (1974), 'Excess Demand Functions', Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1 (1), March, 15-21 -- Gerard Debreu (1975), 'The Rate of Convergence of the Core of an Economy', Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2 (1), March, 1-7 -- Gerard Debreu (1984), 'Economic Theory in the Mathematical Mode', American Economic Review, 74 (3), June, 267-78 -- M. Allais (1953a), 'L'Extension des Théories de l'Equilibre Economique Général et du Rendement Social au Cas du Risque' (Extension of the Theories of General Economic Equilibrium and Economic Efficiency to the Case of Risk), Econometrica, 21 (2), April, 269-90 -- Maurice Allais (1953b), 'Le Comportement de l'Homme Rationnel devant le Risque: Critique des Postulats et Axiomes de l'Ecole Américaine' (Rational Behavior under Risk: Critique of the Postulates and Axioms of the American School), Econometrica, 21 (4), October, 503-46 -- Maurice Allais (1962), 'The Influence of the Capital-Output Ratio on Real National Income', Econometrica, 30 (4), October, 700-728 -- Maurice Allais (1997), 'An Outline of My Main Contributions to Economic Science', American Economic Review, 87 (6), December, 3-12

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Bertil Ohlin (1937a), 'Some Notes on the Stockholm Theory of Savings and Investment I', Economic Journal, XLVII (185), March, 53-69 -- Bertil Ohlin (1937b), 'Some Notes on the Stockholm Theory of Savings and Investment II', Economic Journal, XLVII (186), June, 221-40 -- Bertil Ohlin (1991), 'The Theory of Trade', in Eli F. Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin, Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory, translated, edited and introduced by Harry Flam (ed) and M. June Flanders (ed), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 71, 73, 75-214 -- J.E. Meade (1948), 'National Income, National Expenditure and the Balance of Payments. Part I', Economic Journal, LVIII (232), December, 483-505 -- J.E. Meade (1949a), 'National Income, National Expenditure and the Balance of Payments - continued', Economic Journal, LIX (233), March, 17-39 -- J.E. Meade (1949b), 'A Geometrical Representation of Balance of Payments Policy', Economica, 16 (64), November, 305-20 -- J.E. Meade (1958), 'Is the National Debt a Burden?', Oxford Economic Papers, 10 (2), June, 163-83 -- James E. Meade (1978), 'The Meaning of "Internal Balance"', Economic Journal, 88 (351), September, 423-35 -- James E. Meade (1993), 'The Relation of Mr. Meade's Relations to Kahn's Multiplier', Economic Journal, 103 (418), May, 664-5 -- Robert A. Mundell (1957), 'International Trade and Factor Mobility', American Economic Review, 47 (3), June, 321-35 -- Robert A. Mundell (1961), 'A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas', American Economic Review, 51 (4), September, 657-65 -- Robert A. Mundell (1962), 'The Appropriate Use of Monetary and Fiscal Policy for Internal and External Stability', IMF Staff Papers, 9 (1), March, 70-77 -- R.A. Mundell (1963), 'Capital Mobility and Stabilization Policy Under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates', Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, XXIX (4), November, 475-85 -- Robert A. Mundell (1971), 'The Dollar and the Policy Mix: 1971', in Essays in International Finance, No. 85, Princeton, NJ: International Finance Section, Princeton University, May, 3-28 -- Robert A. Mundell (1973), 'A Plan for a European Currency', in Harry G. Johnson (ed) and Alexander K. Swoboda (ed) (eds), The Economics of Common Currencies, Chapter 9, London: George Allen & Unwin, 143-72