Economics: A New IntroductionEconomics: A New Introduction provides a fresh introduction to real economics. Highlighting the complex and changing nature of economic activity, this wide-ranging text employs a pragmatic mix of old and new methods to examine the role of values and theoretical beliefs in economic life and in economists’ understanding of it. It attends to the problems which have come with high productivity, rapidly changing technology and skills, changing proportions of earning and non-earning years in most people’s lives, and a faltering revolution in childhood and parenting which has brought stress and over-work for many women. It addresses such issues as rising poverty, inequality, insecurity and the slow progress of environmental reform. In focusing on such abuses of affluence the text draws on institutional, Keynesian, green and feminist theories, while emphasising all approaches to understanding economic life. |
Contents
IV | 2 |
V | 12 |
VI | 19 |
VII | 30 |
VIII | 35 |
IX | 48 |
X | 55 |
XI | 65 |
XLV | 398 |
XLVI | 411 |
XLVII | 418 |
XLVIII | 430 |
XLIX | 442 |
L | 444 |
LII | 449 |
LIII | 472 |
XII | 66 |
XIII | 72 |
XIV | 87 |
XV | 98 |
XVI | 129 |
XVIII | 143 |
XX | 162 |
XXI | 173 |
XXII | 181 |
XXIII | 189 |
XXIV | 209 |
XXV | 241 |
XXVI | 242 |
XXVII | 247 |
XXVIII | 256 |
XXIX | 271 |
XXX | 279 |
XXXI | 280 |
XXXII | 287 |
XXXIV | 294 |
XXXV | 307 |
XXXVII | 326 |
XXXIX | 329 |
XLII | 361 |
XLIII | 376 |
XLIV | 389 |
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accounts advertising behavior better buyers capital capitalist causal causal relations causes cent chapter choices company law competition conflicts conservation consumer sovereignty consumers corporate costs countries demand distribution earn economic growth economic system economists effects efficient employers environmental equipment example factors of production farm firms full employment historical costs household housing income income effect increase individual industries inequalities inflation institutions interest investment investors labor land landlords less marginal cost market strength ment mixed economies monopoly mousetrap neoclassical nomic output owners ownership paid pension policies political poor production profit public enterprises public housing public ownership purposes rates reasons reduce regulation rent revenue rich rising sector sell share skills social spending sumer supply technical tenants tend theory tion trade unem wage share wages wealth welfare workers