• Lots of topical real world examples, including; the ipod, Hurricane Katrina, the availability of cancer drugs on the NHS and top up fees help students relate economics to the real world.
• Eye-catching full colour text design helps engage students.

Readership: Undergraduate and foundation students taking an Economics module.

Andrew Gillespie, Head of Business Studies and Accounts, d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford. Visiting lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

MICROECONOMICS
1: What is economics?
2: The Production Possibility Frontier
3: Demand
4: The Elasticity of Demand
5: Supply
6: Market Equilibrium
7: The Free Market System: Advantages and Disadvantages
8: Intervening in the Market System
9: Costs: Short Run and Long Run
10: Revenues, Costs and Profit
11: Perfect Compeition
12: Monopoly
13: Oligopoly
14: Monopolistic Competition and Non Price Competition
15: Barriers to Entry and Price Discrimination
16: Integration and Competition Policy
17: Business Objectives
18: The Labour Market
MACROECONOMICS
19: Introduction to Macroeconomics
20: Equilibrium in the Economy
21: National Income and the Standard of Living
22: Economic Growth and the Economic Cycle
23: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply and the Price Level
24: Consumption
25: Investment
26: Fiscal Policy
27: Unemployment
28: Money
29: Inflation
30: Exchange Rates
31: International Trade
32: European Union
33: Developing Economies
34: Globalisation