Economics : a new introduction.

Economics : a new introduction.

Stretton's introductory level economics textbook provides a much-needed alternative to standard student texts. He argues that neoclassical economic theory is inadequate, and draws on elements of Keynesian, green and feminist thought.

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Main Author: Stretton, Hugh
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Pluto, 1999.
Subjects:
Economics.
economics.
Economics
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part One
  • Studying Economics
  • 1. What you can know, what you canâ€?t know
  • 2. Causes and effects (1) the need to select
  • 3. Causes and effects (2) how to select
  • 4. Explanations and equations
  • 5. The controversial language of economics
  • 6. Efficiency, welfare and the scope of economics
  • 7. Skills and values you will need
  • Part Two
  • Economic Growth and Change
  • 8. Understanding growth and change
  • 9. Theories of economic growth
  • 10. Institutional studies of economic development
  • 11. Some economic historiesNEW DIRECTIONS
  • 12. Changing modes of production and sources of income
  • 13. Technology
  • 14. Wants
  • 15. Childhood
  • 16. Threatened social capital
  • 17. Threatened natural resources
  • 18. The rich democracies now
  • Part Three
  • Demands for Goods and Services
  • 19. Dual demands: for goods and services, and for modes of supply
  • 20. How are wants and tastes formed?
  • 21. How do prices, incomes and tastes influence demand?
  • 22. The elasticity of demand
  • Part Four
  • The Productive Institutions
  • 23. People as producersHOUSEHOLDS
  • 24. Household histories
  • 25. Household capital
  • 26. Housing Policies
  • 27. Households : a summary
  • PRIVATE ENTERPRISES
  • 28. Business powers
  • 29. Theories about firmsâ€? purposes
  • 30. How firms work
  • 31. Costs of production : analysis
  • 32. Costs of production: four ways to fix wages
  • 33. Costs of production : how firms minimize their costs
  • 34. How firms price their products
  • 35. How firms invest
  • 36. What private enterprises need from government :A shortest summary
  • PUBLIC ENTERPRISES
  • 37. Public growth38. Public efficiency
  • 39. What public enterprises need from government
  • Part Five
  • The Distributive Institutions
  • 40. Market theory
  • 41. Market practice
  • 42. Market examples
  • WEALTH AND INCOME
  • 43. The composition and distribution of wealth
  • 44. The composition and distribution of income
  • 45. Income policies
  • 46. Taxation
  • Part Six
  • Economic Strategy
  • 47. The parts and the whole
  • 48. Economic structure
  • 49. How free should trade be?
  • 50. Money and banking : national
  • 51. Money and banking : international52. Inflation
  • 53. Employment
  • 54. Global markets: Interactive effects of inadequately governed economic structure, trade, banking, exchange and employment
  • NATIONAL STRATEGIES
  • 56. A federal economy
  • 57. Free-trading independence
  • 58. Protected independence
  • 59. Ex-Communist options
  • 60. Democracy in a global economy
  • Index

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