Economics made simple : how money, trade and markets really work /

How do banks work? What does the City do? Why do prices rise or fall? Is competition wasteful? How can we create more wealth? What causes globalization and how does it affect people? This book answers these and other questions, not in the way that economics textbooks do - with graphs, abstract model...

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Main Author: Pirie, Madsen, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Petersfield, Hampshire : Harriman House Ltd, 2012
Series:Harriman economics essentials.
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