Economics /
John Sloman ; with the collaboration of Mark Sutcliffe.
- 3rd ed.
- London : Prentice Hall, 1997.
- xv, 830 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Previous ed.: 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing economics -- Supply and demand -- Government intervention in the market -- Background to demand -- Background to supply -- Profit maximising under perfect competition and monopoly -- Profit maximising under imperfect competition -- Alternative theories of the firm -- The theory of distribution of income -- Inequality, poverty and policies to redistribute incomes -- Markets, efficiency and the public interest -- Applied microeconomics -- Macroeconomic issues I: economic growth, unemployment and inflation -- Macroeconomic issues II: the open economy -- Macroeconomic ideas -- The simple Keynesian analysis of national income, employment and inflation -- Fiscal policy -- Money and interest rates -- Monetary policy -- Macroeconomic controversies I: the control of aggregate demand -- Macroeconomics controversies II: aggregate supply, unemployment and inflation -- Supply-side policies -- International trade -- The balance of payments, exchange rates and international economic relationships -- Economic problems of developing countries.