Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
Editor/Author
Stanford, Jim
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Pluto Press
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$22.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$33.00
ISBN: 978-0-74-533577-3
Category: Business, Finance & Economics - Economics
Image Count:
47
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Accessible, and critical, guide to key economic concepts, relating them to everyday experience. Text is complimented by educational cartoons.
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Why Study Economics?
- Part One: Preliminaries
- 1 The Economy and Economics
- 2 Capitalism
- 3 Economic History
- 4 The Politics of Economics
- Part Two: The Basics of Capitalism: Work, Tools, and Profit
- 5 Work, Production, and Value
- 6 Working with Tools
- 7 Companies, Owners, and Profit
- 8 Working for a Living
- 9 Reproduction (for Economists!)
- 10 Closing the Little Circle
- Part Three: Capitalism as a System
- 11 Competition
- 12 Business Investment
- 13 Employment and Unemployment
- 14 Inequality and its Consequences
- 15 Divide and Conquer
- 16 Capitalism and the Environment
- Part Four: The Complexity of Capitalism
- 17 Money and Banking
- 18 Inflation, Central Banks, and Monetary Policy
- 19 Paper Chase: Stock Markets, Financialization, and Pensions
- 20 The Conflicting Personalities of Government
- 21 Spending and Taxing
- 22 Globalization
- 23 Development (and Otherwise)
- 24 Closing the Big Circle
- 25 The Ups and Downs of Capitalism
- 26 Meltdown and Aftermath
- Part Five: Challenging Capitalism
- 27 Evaluating Capitalism
- 28 Improving Capitalism
- 29 Replacing Capitalism?
- Conclusion: A Baker's Dozen: Key Things to Remember