Modern Economics: An Introduction for Business and Professional Students/

Harvey,Jack

Modern Economics: An Introduction for Business and Professional Students/ by Jack Harvey - 6th ed. - London: Macmillan, 1969. - xviii,558p.

I. INTRODUCTION.
1. What Economics is About.
2. Methods of Allocating Resources --
II. WHAT TO PRODUCE.
3. How Price is Formed in the Free Market--
4. Applications of Demand and Supply Analysis.
5. A Further Look at Demand --
III. HOW TO PRODUCE -THE THEORY OF PRODUCTION.
6. The Firm.
7. The Organisation and Scale of Production.
8. The Distribution of Goods to the Consumer.
9. The Location of Production.
10. Combining the Factors of Production.
11. Deciding on the Most Profitable Output.
12. The Supply Curve of the Industry under Perfect Competition.
13. Rewarding the Factors of Production: the Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution --
IV. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES.
14. Market Failure and the Role of Government.
15. Monopoly.
16. Imperfect Competition: Other Forms.
17. Externalities and Cost-Benefit Analysis.
18. The Environment: Conservation, Pollution--
19. The Provision of Goods and Services by the Public Sector --
V. REWARDS TO THE FACTORS OF PRODUCTION
20. Labour and Wages.
21. Capital and Interest.
22. Land and Rent.
23. Entrepreneurship and Profit --
VI. MONEY AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
24. Money and the Rate of Interest.
25. Financial Markets.
26. Clearing Banks.
27. The Bank of England --
VII. THE GOVERNMENT AND STABILISATION POLICY.
28. Measuring the Level of Activity: National Income Calculations.
29. Unemployment.
30. The Level of Output and Aggregate Demand: the Keynesian Explanation.
31. Employment and the Price Level.
32. Inflation: Its Effects.
33. Policies to Achieve Price Stability.
34. Economic Growth.
35. Balanced Regional Development.
36. Public Finance --
VIII. INTERNATIONAL TRADE.
37. The Nature of International Trade.
38. The Balance of Payments.
39. Foreign Exchange Rates.
40. The Correction of a Balance-of-Payments Disequilibrium.
41. The European Community --
IX. LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE.
42. Current Problems and Policies of the UK.

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