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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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
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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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • About The Author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Everyday Economics
  • 1. Trading Things, Creating Wealth
  • 2. What Things Are Worth, And When
  • 3. Prices, Selling And Buying
  • 4. Producing And Distributing
  • 5. Enterprise
  • 6. Money And Currency
  • 7. Banks and Finance
  • 8. Competition, Monopolies, And Setting The Rules
  • 9. Taxes
  • 10. International Trade
  • 11. Globalistation And Devlopment
  • 12. Overview
  • Glossary
  • Index