Introduction to economics /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cairncross, Alec, 1911-1998
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Butterworths, 1978.
Edición:5th ed., 2nd repr.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introductory. 1. What economics is about.
  • 2. The central problems of economics.
  • 3. Production, consumption and trade.
  • 4. The factors of production.
  • II. Industrial organisation. 5. Growth, transformation and development.
  • 6. Specialisation: division of labour.
  • 7. Specialisation. localisation of industry.
  • 8. Large-scale production.
  • 9. small-scale production.
  • 10. The finance of large-scale production.
  • 11. The growth of business units.
  • III. Supply and demand. 12. The existing order: a preliminary survey.
  • The price mechanism.
  • 14. Supply and demand.
  • 15. Demand.
  • 16. Supply: cost and price.
  • 17. Monopoly and competition.
  • 18. Supply: cost in relation to output.
  • 19. Supply: cost in relation to time.
  • 20. Inter-relationship of supply and demand.
  • 21. Social aspects of pricing.
  • IV. The distribution on income. 22. The distribution of income.
  • 23. Wages.
  • 24. Interest and profit.
  • V. Income, employment and money. 25. The national income.
  • 26. Fluctuations in the national income: unemployment.
  • 27. Fluctuations in the value of money: inflation.
  • 28. The demand for money.
  • 29. The supply of money.
  • 30. British financial institutions.
  • VI. International trade and finance.
  • 31. International trade.
  • 32. The balance of payments.
  • 33. The mechanism of international adjustment.
  • VII. Economic policy. 34. The managed economy.
  • 35. Economic plannig.
  • 36. Some problems of economic policy.