The best book on the market : how to stop worrying and love the free economy / Eamonn Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Eamonn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free enterprise.

Entrepreneurship.

Competition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Capstone, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The free market makes the world go around. Maybe it's time we all tried to understand it a little better. Luckily Eamonn Butler is the ideal teacher to get us all up to speed. Markets are everywhere. But how many of us understand how they work, and why? What does a 'free market' really mean? Do free markets actually exist? Should we have more or less of them? Most of all - do we really need to know all this? Answer: Yes we do. MAKING ECONOMICS SIMPLE SO THAT EVEN POLITICIANS CAN UNDERSTAND IT If any mention of free markets sends your mind screaming back to your musty old school economics

Contents:

The Best Book on the Market; Contents; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER ONE: The Amazing World of Markets; CHAPTER TWO: How Specialization and Exchange Make Us Rich; CHAPTER THREE: The Instant Messaging System of Price; CHAPTER FOUR: Killing the Messenger; CHAPTER FIVE: The Driving Force of Competition; CHAPTER SIX: The Rules of the Market; CHAPTER SEVEN: Market Failure (and Government Failure); CHAPTER EIGHT: The Morality of the Market; CHAPTER NINE: How to Grow a Market; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612371950

9781906465995

1906465991

9781282371958

1282371959

9781906465131

1906465134

OCLC:

609848910