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020 _a9781622755424
_qhardbound
037 _fInstitutional Fund
100 _aSeth, Shaun (Ed.)
_914676
245 1 _aEconomics /
_cedited by Shaun Seth.
250 _aFirst edition
260 _aNew York, NY :
_bBritannica Educational Publishing,
_c2016.
300 _axii, 148 pages :
_bcolor illustrations ;
_g24 cm.
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references, glossary and index.
_bSeth, S. (Ed.). (2016). Economics (1st ed.). New York, NY: Britannica Educational Publishing.
505 _aIntroduction -- 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
650 _aEconomics
_vJuvenile literature.
_922872
700 _aSeth, Shaun, editor.
_914678
942 _cBK
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