Part 1: Introduction
1. Economics and the economy
2. Tools of economic analysis
Part 2: Positive Microeconomics
3. Demand, supply and the market
4. Elasticities of demand and supply
5. Consumer choice and demand decisions
6. Choice under uncertainty and behavioural economics
7. Introducing supply decision
8. Production, costs and supply
9. Perfect competition and pure monopoly
10. Market structure and imperfect competition
11. Labour market
12. Factor markets, income distribution, and inequality
13. The economics of information
Part 3: Welfare Economics
14. Welfare economics
15. Government spending and revenue
16. Governing the market
Part 4: Macroeconomics
17. Introduction to macroeconomics
18. Supply-side economics and economic growth
19. Output and aggregate demand
20. Fiscal policy and foreign trade
21. Money, banking and financial markets
22. Money demand, interest rates and monetary
transmission
23. Monetary and fiscal policy
24. Aggregate supply, prices and adjustment to shocks
25. Inflation, expectations and credibility
26. Unemployment
27. Exchange rates and the balance of payments
28. Open economy macroeconomics
29. Business cycles
Part 5: The World Economy
30. International Trade
31. Exchange rate regimes
32. Globalization, national sovereignty and the world economy
David Begg is Principal of the Tanaka Business School at Imperial
College London. He has been a Research Fellow of the Centre for
Economic Policy Research (a network of leading European economists)
since its inception in 1984. David's research focuses mainly on
monetary policy, exchange rates, monetary union, and economic
transition. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic
Policy Research. He co-authored several of the CEPR annual reports
in the series he helped found: Monitoring the European Central
Bank, and Monitoring European Integration. The 1997 MEI
Report, EMU: Getting the Endgame Right, changed the policy
that the European Union adopted to launch the euro in 1999. He was
also founding Managing Editor of Economic Policy, now an official
journal of the European Economic Association.
Gianluigi Vernasca a Senior Lecturer of Economics at
University of Essex.
Rudiger Dornbusch. MIT
RUDI DORNBUSCH (1942–2002) was Ford Professor of Economics and
International Management at MIT. He did his undergraduate work in
Switzerland and held a PhD from the University of Chicago. He
taught at Chicago, at Rochester, and from 1975 to 2002 at MIT. His
research was primarily in international economics, with a major
macroeconomic component. His special research interests included
the behavior of exchange rates, high inflation and hyperinflation,
and the problems and opportunities that high capital mobility pose
for developing economies. He lectured extensively in Europe and in
Latin America, where he took an active interest in problems of
stabilization policy, and held visiting appointments in Brazil and
Argentina. His writing includes Open Economy Macroeconomics and,
with Stanley Fischer and Richard Schmalensee, Economics.
Stanley Fischer ï¿ direttore della Banca di Israele.
STANLEY FISCHER is governor of the Bank of Israel. Previously he
was vice chairman of Citigroup and president of Citigroup
International, and from 1994 to 2002 he was first deputy managing
director of the International Monetary Fund. He was an
undergraduate at the London School of Economics and has a PhD from
MIT. He taught at the University of Chicago while Rudi Dornbusch
was a student there, starting a long friendship and collaboration.
He was a member of the faculty of the MIT Economics Department from
1973 to 1998. From 1988 to 1990 he was chief economist at the World
Bank. His main research interests are economic growth and
development; international economics and macroeconomics,
particularly inflation and its stabilization; and the economics of
transition. http://www.iie.com/fischer
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