TY  - GEN
AU  - Seth, Shaun (Ed.)
AU  - Seth, Shaun, editor.
TI  - Economics
SN  - 9781622755424
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Britannica Educational Publishing, 
KW  - Economics
KW  - Juvenile literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index.; Introduction -- Chapter 1: Foundations of Economics -- Definition -- Scarcity: Resource Limitations and Allocation --The Price System -- Supply and Demand -- Chapter 2: The Historical Development of Economics -- The Unintended Effects of Markets -- Construction of a System -- Marxism -- The Marginalists -- The Critics -- Keynesian Economics -- Postwar Developments -- Radical Critiques -- Chapter 3: Methodological Considerations in Contemporary Economics -- Methods of Inference -- Testing Theories -- Microeconomics -- Macroeconomics -- Neoclassical Economics -- Chapter 4: Fields of Contemporary Economics -- Money -- Growth and Development -- Public Finance -- International Economics -- Labour -- Industrial Organization -- Agriculture -- Law and Economics -- Information Economics -- Financial Economics -- Other Schools and Fields of Economics -- Chapter 5: The Evolution of Economic Systems: Prehistory to state Capitalism -- Prehistoric and Preliterate Economic Systems -- Centralized States -- Precondition for Market Society -- From Mercantilism to Commercial Capitalism -- From Commercial to Industrial Capitalism -- From Industrial to State Capitalism -- Chapter 6: Criticism of Capitalism and Centrally Planned Systems -- The Unreliability of Growth -- The Quality of Growth -- Equity -- Corrective Measures -- Centrally Planned Systems -- Conclusion
ER  -