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Understanding Economics
Author(s): Vicky Allsopp (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 19 Oct. 1995
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 484 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415091322
- ISBN-13: 9780415091329
Book Description
Understanding Economics presents an interesting and accessible introduction to key economic ideas. The book clearly shows the relevance of economics to everyday situations. Examples are drawn from the internal workings of households, business firms and non-profit organizations. The book is user friendly in both style and content and requires no prior knowledge of economics and minimal mathematics.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Allsopp’s text is quite different. . . it is refreshing and challenging. The book is clear and well written and is an extremely useful first year undergraduate economics text. I like the focus on uncertainty, time and institutions. It is the best non-mainstream text for first year undergraduates that I have read.”
-Geoff Hodgson, The Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge
-Geoff Hodgson, The Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge
About the Author
Vicky Allsopp is senior lecturer in Economics at Middlesex University where she teaches economics and finance to social science, humanities and business studies students. She has extensive teaching and consultancy experience both in this country and abroad.
