Product Description

This text is essential reading for all students who require a business-oriented introduction to economics, but is particularly aimed at MBA students. The strong emphasis on economic concepts and market structures ensures that this book is entirely suitable for executive programmes also.

This book is a compact, self-contained introduction on economics with a strong business and practical orientation. The book focuses on three essential branches of modern economics: competition and the market system, Macroeconomics and the economics of openess and globalisation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #755562 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 649 pages

From the Back Cover
Dermot McAleese
Economics for Business 2e
Competition, Macro-stability and Globalisation
The new edition of this highly regarded text provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to economics. It deals with subjects about which every serious student of business needs to be informed.
Economics for Business focuses on three essential branches of modern economics- competition and the market system, macroeconomics, and the economics of openness and globalisation, including the analysis of international trade, foreign investment and exchange rates.
Key Features
· Assumes no previous background in economics
· Focuses on issues relevant to an increasingly globalised environment
· Strikes a balance between theory and application
· Clear writing style and attractive learning aids (boxes, questions for discussion, exercises and further reading)
New Features
· Thorough updating of tables and text
· Extended analysis of privatisation, competition and regulation
· Assessment of the role of the Euro and the European Central Bank
· New appendices and boxes on- the new economy, competition policy, fiscal activism, the US trade deficit etc
· New chapter on migration
· Improved question material
With its strong emphasis on market structures, monetary policy and interest rates, business fluctuations and globalisation, Economics for Business is especially suitable for MBA and other executive programmes, as well as for post-experience conversion courses.
Dermot McAleese is Whately Professor of Political Economy, and Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Studies, at Trinity College Dublin. He has served on the Board of the Central Bank of Ireland and was visiting professor at the World Bank. He lectures on MBA and executive courses in Trinity College and he is a member of the visiting faculty of the Irish Management Institute and of the ENPC School of International Management (Paris). He has written extensively on economic policy and international economics.