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Modern Economics: An Introduction by Jack Harvey

Jack Harvey's Modern Economics is a classic in the world of economics teaching and learning and is an ideal entry to the subject for introductory students in business and economics. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect developments in a number of important and emerging areas of economics.
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About Jack Harvey

JACK HARVEY is a pioneer in teaching and writing textbooks about economics. He has taught economics at all levels and is the author of several successful and influential textbooks that have become modern classics.

ERNIE JOWSEY is Principal Lecturer in Economics in the School of Environment and Development at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Preface.- PART 1: INTRODUCTION.- What Economics is About.- Methods of Allocating Resources.- PART 2: WHAT TO PRODUCE.- How Price is Formed in the Free Market.- Applications of Demand and Supply Analysis.- A Further Look at Demand.- PART 3: HOW TO PRODUCE THE THEORY OF PRODUCTION.- The Firm.- The Organisation and Scale of Production.- The Distribution of Goods to the Consumer.- The Location of Production.- Combining the Factors of Production.- Deciding on the Most Profitable Output.- The Supply Curve of the Industry under Perfect Competition.- Rewarding the Factors of Production: The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution.- PART 4: THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES.- Market Failure and the Role of Government.- Monopoly.- Imperfect Competition: Other Forms.- Externalities and Cost-Benefit Analysis.- The Environment: Conservation and Pollution.- The Provision of Goods and Services by the Public Sector.- PART 5: REWARDS TO THE DIFFERENT FACTORS OF PRODUCTION.- Labour and Wages.- Capital and Interest.- Land and Rent.- Entrepreneurship and Profit.- PART 6: MONEY AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.- Money and the Rate of Interest.- Financial Markets.- Clearing Banks.- The Bank of England.- PART 7: THE GOVERNMENT AND STABILISATION POLICY.- Measuring the Level of Activity: National Income Calculations.- Unemployment.- The Level of Output and Aggregate Demand: The Keynesian Explanation.- Employment and the Price Level.- Inflation: Its Effects.- Policies to Achieve Price Stability.- Economic Growth.- Balanced Regional Development.- Public Finance.- PART 8: INTERNATIONAL TRADE.- The Nature of International Trade.- The Balance-of-Payments.- Foreign Exchange Rates.- The Correction of a Balance-of-Payments Disequilibrium.- The European Union.- PART 9: LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE.- The Population of the UK.- Current Problems and Policies in the UK and Europe.

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9780230551299

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0230551297

Title

Modern Economics: An Introduction by Jack Harvey

Author

Jack Harvey

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year published

20070504

Number of pages

584

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Modern Economics Jack Harvey

Modern Economics by Jack Harvey

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