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The truth about markets : why some nations are rich but most remain poor / John Kay.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Penguin, 2004.Description: ix, 478 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780140296723 (pbk.) :
  • 330122
  • 0140296727
  • 9780140296723
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.122 KAY
LOC classification:
  • HB95
Contents:
1.Welcome to the world of Bloomberg television -- 2.People -- 3.Figures -- 4.How rich states became rich -- 5.Transactions and rules -- 6.Production and exchange -- 7.Assignment -- 8.Central planning -- 9.Pluralism -- 10.Spontaneous order -- 11.Competitive markets -- 12.Markets in risk -- 13.Markets in money -- 14.General equilibrium -- 15.Efficiency -- 16.Neoclassical economics and after -- 17.Rationality and adaptatio -- 18.Information -- 19.Risk in reality -- 20.Co-operation -- 21.Co-ordination -- 22.The knowledge economy -- 23.Poor states stay poor -- 24.Who gets what? -- 25.The American business model -- 27.Beyond the American business model -- 28.The embedded market -- 29.The framework of economic policy -- 30.A primer in economic policy.
Summary: This accessible work explains the big questions of contemporary economics: how do markets work? Why do they work? Why are they better than alternative systems of organizing economics? And why, sometimes, do they fail catastrophically?
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 330.122 KAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 204890
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 330.122 KAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 204889
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 330.122 KAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 204892

Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-461) and index.

1.Welcome to the world of Bloomberg television -- 2.People -- 3.Figures -- 4.How rich states became rich -- 5.Transactions and rules -- 6.Production and exchange -- 7.Assignment -- 8.Central planning -- 9.Pluralism -- 10.Spontaneous order -- 11.Competitive markets -- 12.Markets in risk -- 13.Markets in money -- 14.General equilibrium -- 15.Efficiency -- 16.Neoclassical economics and after -- 17.Rationality and adaptatio -- 18.Information -- 19.Risk in reality -- 20.Co-operation -- 21.Co-ordination -- 22.The knowledge economy -- 23.Poor states stay poor -- 24.Who gets what? -- 25.The American business model -- 27.Beyond the American business model -- 28.The embedded market -- 29.The framework of economic policy -- 30.A primer in economic policy.

This accessible work explains the big questions of contemporary economics: how do markets work? Why do they work? Why are they better than alternative systems of organizing economics? And why, sometimes, do they fail catastrophically?

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