Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.
Essential Economics for Cambridge IGCSE® & O Level
Taschenbuch von Jane King (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

51,95 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen

Kategorien:
Beschreibung
Support your EAL learners with the clear approach of iEssential Economics for Cambridge IGCSE & O Level (Third Edition), which builds understanding and confidence. Written by examiners, it is fully matched to the latest syllabus (0455/2281), for examination from 2020.
Support your EAL learners with the clear approach of iEssential Economics for Cambridge IGCSE & O Level (Third Edition), which builds understanding and confidence. Written by examiners, it is fully matched to the latest syllabus (0455/2281), for examination from 2020.
Zusammenfassung
A step-by-step approach for the latest Economics syllabus
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Syllabus matching grid

  • 1 The basic economic problem: Choice and the allocation of resources

  • 1.1 The nature of the economic problem

  • 1.1.1: The economic problem

  • 1.1.2: Economic and free goods

  • 1.2 The factors of production

  • 1.2.1: Factors of production and their rewards

  • 1.2.2: Mobility, quantity and quality of factors of production

  • 1.3 Opportunity cost

  • 1.3.1: Definition and examples of opportunity cost

  • 1.3.2: Opportunity cost and economic decision making

  • 1.4 Production possibility curves

  • 1.4.1: The production possibility frontier

  • 1.4.2: Movements and shifts along a production possibility curve

  • Test yourself

  • 2 The allocation of resources: How the market works and market failure

  • 2.1 Microeconomics and macroeconomics

  • 2.1.1: The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics

  • 2.2 The roles of markets in allocating resources

  • 2.2.1: The market system

  • 2.2.2: Resource allocation decisions

  • 2.3 Demand

  • 2.3.1: Price and demand

  • 2.3.2: Causes of shifts in the demand curve

  • 2.4 Supply

  • 2.4.1: Price and supply

  • 2.4.2: Conditions of supply

  • 2.5 Price determination

  • 2.5.1: Market equilibrium

  • 2.6 Price changes

  • 2.6.1: Causes and consequences of price changes

  • 2.7 Elasticity of demand

  • 2.7.1: Price elasticity of demand

  • 2.7.2: Elasticity of demand and total spending/product revenue

  • 2.8 Elasticity of supply

  • 2.8.1: Price elasticity of supply

  • 2.9 Market economic systems

  • 2.9.1: The market economic system

  • 2.9.2: Merits and weaknesses of a market system

  • 2.10 Market failure

  • 10 Market failure 48 2.10.1: The nature of market failure

  • 2.10.2: Private and social costs and benefits

  • 2.10.3: Causes of market failure

  • 2.11 Mixed economic systems

  • 2.11.1: The nature of a mixed economy

  • 2.11.2: Government influence on micro-economy: regulation

  • 2.11.3: Government influence on micro-economy: subsidies

  • 2.11.4: Government influence on micro-economy: indirect taxes

  • Test yourself

  • 3 Microeconomic decision makers: The individual as producer, consumer and borrower

  • 3.1 Money and banking

  • 3.1.1: Money

  • 3.1.2: Commercial banks

  • 3.1.3: Central banks

  • 3.2 Households

  • 3.2.1: Influences on spending, saving and borrowing

  • 3.2.2: Income and expenditure patterns

  • 3.3 Workers

  • 3.3.1: Factors affecting occupation choice

  • 3.3.2: Wage determination

  • 3.3.3: Differences in earnings

  • 3.3.4: Division of labour/specialisation

  • 3.4 Trade unions

  • 3.4.1: Nature and purpose of trade unions

  • 3.5 Firms

  • 3.5.1: Classification of firms

  • 3.5.2: Small firms

  • 3.5.3: Growth of firms

  • 3.5.4: Mergers and integration

  • 3.5.5: Economies and diseconomies of scale

  • 3.6 Firms and production

  • 3.6.1: Demand for factors of production

  • 3.6.2: Labour-intensive and capital-intensive production

  • 3.6.3: Production and productivity

  • 3.7 Firms' cost, revenue and objectives

  • 3.7.1: Fixed and variable costs

  • 3.7.2: Total and average costs

  • 3.7.3: Output and costs

  • 3.7.4: Revenue

  • 3.7.5: Objectives of firms

  • 3.8 Market structure

  • 3.8.1: Competitive markets

  • 3.8.2: Monopoly markets

  • Test yourself

  • 4 Government and the macroeconomy

  • 4.1 The role of government

  • 4.1.1: Government roles

  • 4.2 Macroeconomic aims of government

  • 4.2.1: Macroeconomic aims

  • 4.2.2: Conflicts between government aims

  • 4.3 Fiscal policy

  • 4.3.1: Elements of fiscal policy

  • 4.3.2: Classification of taxes

  • 4.3.3: Principles and impacts of taxation

  • 4.3.4: Fiscal policy and government aims

  • 4.4 Monetary policy

  • 4.4.1: Monetary policy measures

  • 4.5 Supply-side policy

  • 4.5.1: The effects of supply-side policy

  • 4.6 Economic growth

  • 4.6.1: Measuring Gross Domestic Product

  • 4.6.2: Economic growth and recession

  • 4.6.3: Illustrating growth and recession

  • 4.6.4: Government policies for economic growth

  • 4.7 Employment and unemployment

  • 4.7.1: Patterns and levels of employment

  • 4.7.2: Full employment

  • 4.7.3: Causes of unemployment

  • 4.7.4: Consequences of unemployment

  • 4.8 Inflation and deflation

  • 4.8.1: The Retail Prices Index and inflation

  • 4.8.2: Causes of inflation

  • 4.8.3: Consequences of inflation

  • 4.8.4: Causes and consequences of deflation

  • 4.8.5: Policies to control inflation and deflation

  • Test yourself

  • 5 Economic development

  • 5.1: Living standards

  • 5.1.1: Indicators of living standards

  • 5.1.2: Comparing living standards and income distribution

  • 5.2 Poverty

  • 5.2.1: Causes of poverty

  • 5.2.2: Policies to alleviate poverty

  • 5.3 Population

  • 5.3.1: Factors that affect population growth

  • 5.3.2: Reasons for different rates of population growth

  • 5.3.3: Problems of population change

  • 5.3.4: The effect of changing population sizes on an economy

  • 5.3.5: Changes in population structure and their effect on an economy

  • 5.4 Differences in economic development between countries

  • 5.4.1: Different rates of development

  • 5.4.2: Factors affecting development

  • Test yourself

  • 6 International trade and globalisation

  • 6.1 International specialisation

  • 6.1.1: Advantages and disadvantages of specialisation

  • 6.2 Globalisation, free trade and protection

  • 6.2.1: Globalisation

  • 6.2.2: Multinationals

  • 6.2.3: The benefits of free trade

  • 6.2.4: Methods of protection

  • 6.2.5: Reasons for protection

  • 6.3 Foreign exchange rates

  • 6.3.1: Exchange rates

  • 6.3.2: Causes of foreign exchange rate fluctuations

  • 6.3.3: Consequences of fluctuations

  • 6.4 The balance of payments

  • 6.4.1: The current account of the balance of payments

  • 6.4.2: Current account deficit and surplus

  • 6.4.3: Policies to achieve balance of payments stability

  • Test yourself

  • Glossary

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Schulbücher
Rubrik: Schule & Lernen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Bundle
ISBN-13: 9780198424895
ISBN-10: 0198424892
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: King, Jane
Dransfield, Robert
Cook, Terry
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 195 x 264 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Jane King (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.04.2018
Gewicht: 0,612 kg
Artikel-ID: 121735856
Zusammenfassung
A step-by-step approach for the latest Economics syllabus
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Syllabus matching grid

  • 1 The basic economic problem: Choice and the allocation of resources

  • 1.1 The nature of the economic problem

  • 1.1.1: The economic problem

  • 1.1.2: Economic and free goods

  • 1.2 The factors of production

  • 1.2.1: Factors of production and their rewards

  • 1.2.2: Mobility, quantity and quality of factors of production

  • 1.3 Opportunity cost

  • 1.3.1: Definition and examples of opportunity cost

  • 1.3.2: Opportunity cost and economic decision making

  • 1.4 Production possibility curves

  • 1.4.1: The production possibility frontier

  • 1.4.2: Movements and shifts along a production possibility curve

  • Test yourself

  • 2 The allocation of resources: How the market works and market failure

  • 2.1 Microeconomics and macroeconomics

  • 2.1.1: The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics

  • 2.2 The roles of markets in allocating resources

  • 2.2.1: The market system

  • 2.2.2: Resource allocation decisions

  • 2.3 Demand

  • 2.3.1: Price and demand

  • 2.3.2: Causes of shifts in the demand curve

  • 2.4 Supply

  • 2.4.1: Price and supply

  • 2.4.2: Conditions of supply

  • 2.5 Price determination

  • 2.5.1: Market equilibrium

  • 2.6 Price changes

  • 2.6.1: Causes and consequences of price changes

  • 2.7 Elasticity of demand

  • 2.7.1: Price elasticity of demand

  • 2.7.2: Elasticity of demand and total spending/product revenue

  • 2.8 Elasticity of supply

  • 2.8.1: Price elasticity of supply

  • 2.9 Market economic systems

  • 2.9.1: The market economic system

  • 2.9.2: Merits and weaknesses of a market system

  • 2.10 Market failure

  • 10 Market failure 48 2.10.1: The nature of market failure

  • 2.10.2: Private and social costs and benefits

  • 2.10.3: Causes of market failure

  • 2.11 Mixed economic systems

  • 2.11.1: The nature of a mixed economy

  • 2.11.2: Government influence on micro-economy: regulation

  • 2.11.3: Government influence on micro-economy: subsidies

  • 2.11.4: Government influence on micro-economy: indirect taxes

  • Test yourself

  • 3 Microeconomic decision makers: The individual as producer, consumer and borrower

  • 3.1 Money and banking

  • 3.1.1: Money

  • 3.1.2: Commercial banks

  • 3.1.3: Central banks

  • 3.2 Households

  • 3.2.1: Influences on spending, saving and borrowing

  • 3.2.2: Income and expenditure patterns

  • 3.3 Workers

  • 3.3.1: Factors affecting occupation choice

  • 3.3.2: Wage determination

  • 3.3.3: Differences in earnings

  • 3.3.4: Division of labour/specialisation

  • 3.4 Trade unions

  • 3.4.1: Nature and purpose of trade unions

  • 3.5 Firms

  • 3.5.1: Classification of firms

  • 3.5.2: Small firms

  • 3.5.3: Growth of firms

  • 3.5.4: Mergers and integration

  • 3.5.5: Economies and diseconomies of scale

  • 3.6 Firms and production

  • 3.6.1: Demand for factors of production

  • 3.6.2: Labour-intensive and capital-intensive production

  • 3.6.3: Production and productivity

  • 3.7 Firms' cost, revenue and objectives

  • 3.7.1: Fixed and variable costs

  • 3.7.2: Total and average costs

  • 3.7.3: Output and costs

  • 3.7.4: Revenue

  • 3.7.5: Objectives of firms

  • 3.8 Market structure

  • 3.8.1: Competitive markets

  • 3.8.2: Monopoly markets

  • Test yourself

  • 4 Government and the macroeconomy

  • 4.1 The role of government

  • 4.1.1: Government roles

  • 4.2 Macroeconomic aims of government

  • 4.2.1: Macroeconomic aims

  • 4.2.2: Conflicts between government aims

  • 4.3 Fiscal policy

  • 4.3.1: Elements of fiscal policy

  • 4.3.2: Classification of taxes

  • 4.3.3: Principles and impacts of taxation

  • 4.3.4: Fiscal policy and government aims

  • 4.4 Monetary policy

  • 4.4.1: Monetary policy measures

  • 4.5 Supply-side policy

  • 4.5.1: The effects of supply-side policy

  • 4.6 Economic growth

  • 4.6.1: Measuring Gross Domestic Product

  • 4.6.2: Economic growth and recession

  • 4.6.3: Illustrating growth and recession

  • 4.6.4: Government policies for economic growth

  • 4.7 Employment and unemployment

  • 4.7.1: Patterns and levels of employment

  • 4.7.2: Full employment

  • 4.7.3: Causes of unemployment

  • 4.7.4: Consequences of unemployment

  • 4.8 Inflation and deflation

  • 4.8.1: The Retail Prices Index and inflation

  • 4.8.2: Causes of inflation

  • 4.8.3: Consequences of inflation

  • 4.8.4: Causes and consequences of deflation

  • 4.8.5: Policies to control inflation and deflation

  • Test yourself

  • 5 Economic development

  • 5.1: Living standards

  • 5.1.1: Indicators of living standards

  • 5.1.2: Comparing living standards and income distribution

  • 5.2 Poverty

  • 5.2.1: Causes of poverty

  • 5.2.2: Policies to alleviate poverty

  • 5.3 Population

  • 5.3.1: Factors that affect population growth

  • 5.3.2: Reasons for different rates of population growth

  • 5.3.3: Problems of population change

  • 5.3.4: The effect of changing population sizes on an economy

  • 5.3.5: Changes in population structure and their effect on an economy

  • 5.4 Differences in economic development between countries

  • 5.4.1: Different rates of development

  • 5.4.2: Factors affecting development

  • Test yourself

  • 6 International trade and globalisation

  • 6.1 International specialisation

  • 6.1.1: Advantages and disadvantages of specialisation

  • 6.2 Globalisation, free trade and protection

  • 6.2.1: Globalisation

  • 6.2.2: Multinationals

  • 6.2.3: The benefits of free trade

  • 6.2.4: Methods of protection

  • 6.2.5: Reasons for protection

  • 6.3 Foreign exchange rates

  • 6.3.1: Exchange rates

  • 6.3.2: Causes of foreign exchange rate fluctuations

  • 6.3.3: Consequences of fluctuations

  • 6.4 The balance of payments

  • 6.4.1: The current account of the balance of payments

  • 6.4.2: Current account deficit and surplus

  • 6.4.3: Policies to achieve balance of payments stability

  • Test yourself

  • Glossary

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Schulbücher
Rubrik: Schule & Lernen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Bundle
ISBN-13: 9780198424895
ISBN-10: 0198424892
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: King, Jane
Dransfield, Robert
Cook, Terry
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 195 x 264 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Jane King (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.04.2018
Gewicht: 0,612 kg
Artikel-ID: 121735856
Sicherheitshinweis

Ähnliche Produkte

Ähnliche Produkte