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Understanding Business: Markets : A Multidimensional Approach to the Market Economy, PDF eBook

Understanding Business: Markets : A Multidimensional Approach to the Market Economy PDF

Edited by Vivek Suneja

Part of the Understanding Business series

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How do markets work? This reader introduces the student to the workings of the market, explaining both the reasons for its success and its shortcomings.

Throughout, the text encourages a critical approach demonstrating the diversity of market economies.

In particular it explores:the social nature of market economiesthe range of approaches to the study of the market: Marxist, Austrian, Keynesian and institutional economics are discussed as alternatives to the neo-classical mainstreamthe differences between Anglo-American, European and Asian economic modelsthe historical development of marketsglobalisation: its extent and its impactthe costs and the benefits of marketsWith chapters by Will Hutton, John Gray and Eric Hobsbawm, this reader provides an excellent introduction.

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