TY - BOOK AU - Foster, Bruce TI - Economics: a student handbook SN - 9781903260258 AV - HB 171.5 .F6 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Hampshire, England PB - The Institute of Commercial Management N1 - The nature and scope of Economics -- The factors of production -- The scale of production -- The location of production -- Demand-- Supply -- How price is decided in perfect markets -- Elasticity of demand and supply-- Applications of the demand and supply model-- Competitive markets -- Monopoly, Oligopoly and monopolistic competition-- competition policy -- Rewards to factors: distribution theory-- More detailed ideas about rewards to factors-- Market failures and how to deal with them-- The nature of money-- The finacial Institutions -- The national Income -- Economic Policy --Unemployment and inflation -- Taxation, government spendling and budgets -- Money and Monetary policy-- Theory of international trade-- The european union and other free trade areas-- The balance of payments-- Exchange rates and the balance of payments problem-- Globalistion ER -