TY - BOOK AU - Sloman,John TI - Economics SN - 9781405847186 (pbk.) : AV - HB171.5 .S635 2006 U1 - 330 PY - 2006/// CY - Harlow PB - Financial Times Prentice Hall KW - Economics KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - ukslc KW - thema N1 - Previous ed.: 2003; Includes index; 1.Introducing economics -- 2.Supply and demand -- 3.Government intervention in the market -- 4.Background to demand -- 5.Background to supply -- 6.Profit maximising udner perfect competition and monopoly -- 7.Profit maximising under imperfect competition -- 8.Alternative theories of the firm -- 9.The theory of distribution of income -- 8.Inequality, poverty and policies to redistribute incomes -- 11.Markets, efficiency and the public interest -- 12.Appllied microeconomics -- 13.The national economy -- 14.Macroeconomic issues and analysis: an overview -- 15.The roots of modern macroeconomics -- 16.Short-run macroeconommic equilibrium -- 17.Money and interest rates -- 18.The relationship between the money and goods marekts -- 19.Fiscal and monetary policy -- 20.Aggregate supply, unemployment and inflation -- 21.Long-term economic growth -- 22.Supply-side policies N2 - Written from a European perspective, this text acquaints students with basic microeconomics, macroeconomics and EU institutions and policy ER -