Product Reference: 978-1-905504-55-8 / 978-1-905504-56-5 / 978-1-905504-87-9

Publication Date: January 2011

Photocopiable option includes hardcopy, CD and site licence.

Digital download option includes site licence (To be sent after completion of order).

This resource is available as a CD in colour with site licence and you have the option of purchasing it with a black and white hard copy.
Rachel Cole teaches at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and is a Principal Examiner. This esource is based on her Back to Basics articles in Economics Today magazine. All
articles have been revised and updated and four new topics have been added.
This resource will give students a good foundation in these important areas of Economics and each article includes Questions for Discussion. The 17 chapters are:

• Why does the supply curve slope upwards?
• Elastic Gymnastics – gain confidence in handling the concepts.
• What are the effects on the market of taxes and subsidies?
• Why look at the margin?
• Do firms exist just to make profit? Or, how realistic is the assumption of profit maximisation?
• Economies and diseconomies of scale
• Efficiency
• Buffer stocks
• What’s so bad about inflation? Or, “everything costs so much these days”.
• The savings ratio
• What is the economic meaning of investment?
• Productivity
• Aggregate demand and supply analysis
• Absolute and comparative advantage.Look – no numbers.
• Exchange rates.
• The national minimum wage
• Index numbers

Product Reference: 978-1-905504-55-8 / 978-1-905504-56-5 / 978-1-905504-87-9

Publication Date: January 2011

Photocopiable option includes hardcopy, CD and site licence.

Digital download option includes site licence (To be sent after completion of order).

This resource is available as a CD in colour with site licence and you have the option of purchasing it with a black and white hard copy.
Rachel Cole teaches at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and is a Principal Examiner. This esource is based on her Back to Basics articles in Economics Today magazine. All
articles have been revised and updated and four new topics have been added.
This resource will give students a good foundation in these important areas of Economics and each article includes Questions for Discussion. The 17 chapters are:

• Why does the supply curve slope upwards?
• Elastic Gymnastics – gain confidence in handling the concepts.
• What are the effects on the market of taxes and subsidies?
• Why look at the margin?
• Do firms exist just to make profit? Or, how realistic is the assumption of profit maximisation?
• Economies and diseconomies of scale
• Efficiency
• Buffer stocks
• What’s so bad about inflation? Or, “everything costs so much these days”.
• The savings ratio
• What is the economic meaning of investment?
• Productivity
• Aggregate demand and supply analysis
• Absolute and comparative advantage.Look – no numbers.
• Exchange rates.
• The national minimum wage
• Index numbers

ISBN: 978-1-905504-55-8

978-1-905504-56-5

978-1-905504-87-9

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