Applied Economics : reading for Australian students / Keith Hancock, Barry Hughes and Robert Wallace.

The function of economics -- The price mechanism -- Supply and demand in specific markets -- Social responsibility of business -- Population: world perspective -- Australia's population -- Poverty and welfare -- Public finance -- Arbitration -- National accounts: their meaning and use -- Australia and the depression -- Fiscal policy -- Money-its nature and origins -- Monetary policy -- Inflation -- Rational economic behaviour and consumer sovereignty -- Prices and costs -- Restrictive practices -- Production and distribution -- Australia's balance of payments -- The Australian tariff -- Trade: the international setting -- Rural problems -- Growth -- Planning the Australian economy?:three views -- Economic development of New Guinea -- Alternatives to capitalism.