Economics for policy makers : a guide for non-economists /
Certain key economic decisions taken by organizations and indeed countries are often not made by economists but by businessmen, trade unionists, politicians and policymakers. Those who employ people, those who represent workers, those who make laws and those who elect them need economics but may hav...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Economic profit
- Value added
- Production and costs
- Production and productivity
- Costs
- Economies of scale
- Customers and competitors
- Demand for the products of an industry and of a monopolist
- Market environments
- Macroeconomics
- Introduction to macroeconomics
- Key words of national accounts
- Money and prices
- Foreign economic relations
- The foreign trade of goods : exports and imports
- Financial movements
- International accounts
- Fiscal policy
- Monetary transfers : taxes, benefits, subsidies and social contributions
- Government spending on goods and services
- Public spending on education, training, research and development
- Public deficit and public debt
- Private demand
- Household consumption : the main destination of goods and services
- Private investment : supplying the private sector with new capital
- The labour market and inequality
- The labour market
- Income distribution and its effects
- Appendix: indexes of competitiveness.