Economics - 50 Ideas you Really Need to Know

Informationen zum Autor Ed Conway is Economics Editor of Sky News and formerly Economics Editor of The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. Ed was the first to reveal the Bank of England's plans to create money through quantitative easing and to warn of the funding gap in the banking system which later led to the collapse of Northern Rock. He lives in London. Klappentext A timely and accessible introduction to the key ideas of economics.A timely and accessible introduction to the key ideas of economics. Zusammenfassung A timely and accessible introduction to the key ideas of economics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The invisible hand. Supply and demand. The Malthusian trap. Opportunity cost. Incentives. Division of labour. Comparative advantage. Capitalism. Keynesianism. Monetarism. Communism. Individualism. Supply-side economics. The marginal revolution. Money. Micro and macro. Gross domestic product. Central banks and interest rates. Inflation. Debt and deflation. Taxes. Unemployment. Currencies and exchange rates. Balance of payments. Trust and the law. Energy and oil. Bond markets. Banks. Stocks and shares. Risky business. Boom and bust. Pension and the welfare state. Money markets. Blowing bubbles. Credit crunches. Creative destruction. Home-owning and house prices. Government deficits. Inequality. Globalization. Multilateralism. Protectionism. Technological revolution. Development economics. Environmental economics. Behavioural economics. Game theory. Criminomics. Happynomics. 21st-century economics. Glossary. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Conway, Conway Edmund
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2012
• EAN: 9781780875859
• ISBN: 978-1-78087-585-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series; 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference, Economic theory and philosophy