Applied economics / edited by Alan Griffiths & Stuart Wall.

By:

Griffiths, Alan, 1944-

Contributor(s):

Wall, Stuart, 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2004.Edition: 10th edDescription: xviii, 668 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0273684329
9780273684329

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

330 GRI

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	330 GRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100360693

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Containing up-to-date information on economic issues and events, this text aims to help students apply economic principles to the real world and give them insight into the difficulties of formulating and implementing economic policy.

Includes bibliographical references.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Changes in the UK economic structure
Part I Theory of the Firm
2 Financial reports as a source of corporate information
3 Firm objectives and firm behaviour
4 The small firm
5 Mergers and acquisitions in the growth of the firm
6 Oligopoly
7 The multinational corporation
8 Privatization and deregulation
9 Pricing in practice
Part II Environmental, Regional and Social Economics
10 The economics of the environment
11 Regional and urban policy
12 Transport
13 Social policy
14 Distribution of income and wealth
15 Trade unions, wages and collective bargaining
Part III Macroeconomics
16 Consumption and saving
17 Investment
18 Public expenditure
19 Taxation
20 Money and EMU
21 Financial institutions and markets
22 Inflation
23 Unemployment
24 Managing the economy
Part IV International Economics
25 Globalization
26 Exchange rates
27 United Kingdom trade performance
28 Free trade, regional trading blocs and protectionism
29 The European Union
30 Growth and Development
A guide to sources
Statistical sources
Information sources
Other applied materials
Electronic Media
Internet sources
Notes on contributors
Index