This new textbook is authoritative, exciting and highly interactive. Based on our best-selling, Economics: A Complete Course, it has been completely updated and revised to fully cover the IGCSE Economics syllabus. It includes a wealth of engaging activities and features and includes the latest material on globalization, development economics, world employment trends, global financial institutions and consumer behaviour.

 

 

There are 448 pages in this book. This book was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press .

Brian Titley has significant experience of teaching business studies and economics and of management in education, business and government. He is a respected author, writing for students learning at the secondary level.

This book has the following chapters: 1: THE BASIC ECONOMIC PROBLEM: SCARCITY AND CHOICE ; 1. The Economic Problem ; 2. Specialization and Exchange ; 3. Economic Systems ; 2: THE NATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS IN AN ECONOMY ; 4. Types of Business Organizations ; 5. Trade Unions ; 6. Financial Institutions ; 3: HOW THE MARKET WORKS ; 7. How Prices are Determined ; 8. Market Structures ; 9. The Role of Advertising ; 4: THE INDIVIDUAL AS PRODUCER, CONSUMER AND BORROWER ; 10. Occupations and Wages ; 11. Spending, Saving and Borrowing ; 5: THE PRIVATE FIRM AS PRODUCER AND EMPLOYER ; 12. Organizing Production ; 13. Costs, Revenues and Profits ; 6: THE ROLE FO THE GOVERNMENT IN AN ECONOMY ; 14. Government Objectives and Policies ; 15. Public Sector Finance ; 7: ECONOMIC INDICATORS: RECENT CHANGES AND CURRENT TRENDS IN AN ECONOMY AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES ; 16. Prices and Employment ; 17. Output and Growth ; 18. International Trade and Exchange Rates ; 8: DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING ECONOMIES ; 19. Economic development ; 20. Population ; 9: INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE AND POSSIBLE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ; 21. Social Costs and Benefits ; 22. The Impact of Globalization