Current Developments in Economics

✍ Scribed by Stephen C. R. Munday (auth.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Economic Methodology or How To Do Economics....Pages 3-14
A Brief History of Economic Thought....Pages 15-32
Microeconomics and Macroeconomics....Pages 33-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Game Theory and Its Uses....Pages 47-59
Privatisation....Pages 60-78
Economic Theory and the Environment....Pages 79-96
Government Provision of Services: Health Care and Education....Pages 97-118
Taxation....Pages 119-137
International Trade: Old Theories, New Theories and the Single European Market....Pages 138-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Macroeconomic Models....Pages 157-185
Unemployment, Inflation and the Phillips Curve....Pages 186-218
Exchange Rates and Economic and Monetary Union....Pages 219-234
Economics and Politics: Political Business Cycles and Independent Central Banks....Pages 235-249
Economic Growth: Old Theories, New Theories and Government Policy....Pages 250-263
Conclusion....Pages 264-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-269

✦ Subjects

Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods