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Sommaire : Part 1 How economics sets the world's agenda

1 How economics has changed over the centuries
Adam Smith and trade
Malthus and the dismal science
Labour's value
The rise of the state
The Great Depression and after
The second world war and after
Monetarism and deregulation
The Great Financial Crisis and after

2 Fiscal policy
The many variants of tax
The aim of tax policy
The Lucas critique
The size of the state
Borrow, not tax
Modern monetary theory
Tax design
Pigouvian taxes

3 Monetary policy
Interest rates
The crisis and QE
Money creation
The money supply and inflation
Monetary policy in times of crisis
Issues with monetary policy
Exchange rate management

4 Trade and currencies
Governments and trade
Trade surpluses and deficits
Gravity model
The World Trade Organisation
Currencies
Forecasting currencies
The problems with fixing
The euro

5 Innovation and productivity
The measurement issue
Sources of productivity gain
The services problem

6 The labour market
Structural unemployment
The new millennium
The lump of labour fallacy
The precariat
Minimum wages
Discrimination in the labour market
Working hours
Demography and the labour market

7 Microeconomics
Models of competition
Monopolies
The lemons problem
Utility
Efficient market hypothesis
The firm
Natural experiments
Game theory

8 Away from the mainstream
The environment
Climate change
Inequality
Anti-globalisation
Behavioural economics
Let a thousand flowers bloom

Part 2 An A-to-Z guide to economic

Langue : Anglais

Localisation : Bibliothèque Campus de Nice

Support : Numérique

Etat : Présent

Propriétaire : Bibliothèque