Economics for Business: Competition, Macro-stability and Globalisation [Paperback]

The selective, thematic, policy oriented approach of Economics for Business, combined with its strong emphasis on market structures, monetary policy and interest rates, business fluctuations and globalisation, makes it especially suitable for MBA and other executive programmes, as well as for post-experience conversion courses.

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. The book has a very strong business focus and has been used in the UK on many MBA courses as well as short, often one semester post experience executive courses. It has also proved popular for undergraduate business economics courses.

The book examines economics from a business perspective and is selective in its coverage, focusing on setting out the big picture and including topics on the basis that they throw light on issues relevant to business. It has a strong policy perspective. Economic issues are analysed in a policy context, which helps students see the relevance of economics to business decisions. The book adopts a modern approach to macroeconomics, as appropriate for business students, and pays special attention to globalisation, trade liberalisation, economic integration and exchange rates.

"I have used Economics for Business as a key text on my Managerial Economics module in the Warwick MBA programme for a number of years. The book possesses the rare quality of being both accessible and rigorous. It is comprehensive, yet admirably succinct. The new material on international issues - such as trade agreements, currency crises and the Euro debate - in the latest edition will be greatly appreciated by teachers and students alike."

Professor Robin Naylor, University of Warwick

"Economics for Business is an excellent text, which is very well written and demonstrates the wealth of knowledge possessed by its author."

Professor Steve Bradley, University of Lancaster

Specially tailored for a business-oriented audience, this text provides a complete introduction to economics for business programmes. With its non-technical and down-to-earth style this book will help make the economics module on your business or professional programme a more instructive and enjoyable experience.

• Full coverage of central issues in business-oriented economics course e.g. interest rates and determinants of exchange rates.
• Focuses on the increased openness and globalisation of the economy.
• Coverage of both macro and micro topics.
• Strikes a balance between theory and application.
• Sets economic ideas in their historical and social context.
• New!
• Material on China in the WTO, deflation, Argentina’s currency crisis, the pros and cons of joining the Euro.
• New! Even more exercises and questions for discussion.

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.

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