<P> 约：8.23 MB<br>《A beginner's guide to the world economy : seventy-seven basic economic concepts that will change the way you see the world》,Charles Epping, published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1995.</P>
<P>CONTENTS<br>1. What Is the World Economy? 3<br>2. How Is Wealth Determined Around the World? 4<br>3. What Is Macroeconomics? 6<br>4. How Does International Trade Function? 8<br>5. What Are Trade Surpluses and Deficits? 10<br>6. How Does Foreign Ownership Affect a Country's Economy? 12<br>7. What Is Money? 13<br>8. What Are the World's Major Currencies? 16<br>9. What Are Freely Floating Currencies? 18<br>10. What Are Exchange Rates? 20<br>11. What Is GNP? 22<br>12. What Is Inflation? 24<br>13. How Can the World's Economies Be Compared? 26<br>14. What Is Money Supply? 27<br>15. What Is a Central Bank? 29<br>16. How Do Central Banks Regulate an Economy? 32<br>17. How Are Interest Rates Used to control an Economy? 35<br>18. What Is Free Trade? 36<br>19. What Are Quotas, Tariffs, and subsidies? 38<br>20. How Do Budget Deficits Affect Trade Deficits? 40<br>21. Why Are Companies Referred to as Ltd., Inc., Gmbh, or S.A.? 42 </P>
<P>22. What Is Equity? 44<br>23. What Is a Balance Sheet? 45<br>24. What Is a Profit and Loss Statement? 47<br>25. What Is Net Worth? 49<br>26. How Are Companies Compared Internationally? 51<br>27. What Is a Leveraged Buyout? 52<br>28. How Do Companies in the Global Economy Transcend<br> National Boundaries? 54<br>29. How Are International Investments Compared? 57<br>30. What Are the Risks of International Investing? 58<br>31. What Is a Stock Index? 61<br>32. How Do Investors Buy Foreign Shares? 62<br>33. What Is an Equity Fund? 64<br>34. What Is Bankruptcy? 66<br>35. What Is a Capital Market? 67<br>36. What Is a Bond? 69<br>37. How Are Bonds Traded? 71<br>38. What Are Eurocurrencies and Eurobonds? 73<br>39. How Are Ratings Used to Evaluate Investments? 75<br>40. How Is Gold Used as an International Investment? 76<br>41. What Are Derivatives? 78<br>42. What Is an Option? 80<br>43. What Are Puts and Calls? 83<br>44. What Is a Currency Option? 84<br>45. What Is a Warrant? 86<br>46. Who Invests in the Global Marketplace? 88<br>47. What Is Hot Money90 </P>
<P>48. How Do Investors and Businesses Use Information Technology<br> to Access the Global Economy? 94<br>49. What Are the Forces Behind European Economic Unity? 97<br>50. What Is the European Union? 99<br>51. How Do Communist Countries Participate in the<br> World Economy? 101<br>52. How Did the Socialist Countries of the Soviet Bloc Make<br> the Transition to Capitalism? 104<br>53. What Is the Pacific Rim Economy? 106<br>54. What Is Japan Inc.? 108<br>55. What Is NAFTA? 110<br>56. What Are Free-Trade Megazones? 112<br>57. What Is the Third World? 116<br>58. What Are the Roots of Third World Poverty? 118<br>59. What Are the Origins of the Third World's Debt? 119<br>60. What Is Hyperinflation? 121<br>61. What Are Economic Austerity Plans? 123<br>62. What Can Be Done to Promote Third World Development? 125<br>63. How Is Global Economic Cooperation Encouraged? 127<br>64. What Is the World Trade Organization? 128<br>65. What Are Regional Development Banks? 130<br>66. What Are the IMF and the World Bank? 132<br>67. How Is Corruption Part of the World Economy? 134<br>68. What Is Money Laundering? 135<br>69. How Does a Swiss Bank Account Work? 137<br>70. What Is a Tax Haven? 139<br>71. How Do International Criminals Escape Prosecution? 140<br>72. What Are Black Markets? 142<br>73. How Is Slavery Part of the World Economy? 143<br>74. How Is the Environment Affected by the World Economy? 146 </P>
<P>75. What Are Pollution Rights? 148<br>76. What Is a Debt-For-Nature Swap? 150<br>77. How Can Economic Sanctions and Incentives Be Used<br> to Protect the Environment? 152<br>GLOSSARY 155</P>

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