FEATURING ECONOMIC DATA AND ANALYSIS UP TO OCTOBER 2001

By: David Begg (Professor of Economics Birkbeck College University of London, Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research, Consultant, Advisor to Gordon Brown) ISBN: 0077099621 (e-Book); 0077099613 (Printed) Number of Pages: 80 Published: December 2001

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Global Economics: Contemporary Issues for 2002 by David Begg comprises seven sections written in David Begg's notable prose style to demonstrate the most topical issues in economics. The text provides up-to-date, clear and fascinating analysis of major contemporary world events that have taken place recently in the world of economics. For example it covers topics such as the economic impact of global terrorism, asylum and immigration issues and the bursting of the dotcom bubble.

David Begg holds a MPhil from Oxford and a PhD from MIT. He is currently a Professor of Economics at Birkbeck College, London and a former Economic Policy Adviser at the Bank of England. Begg's research primarily focuses on monetary policy, exchange rates, monetary union, and economic transition. He has written two leading economics textbooks, Economics 6/e and Foundations of Economics 1/e, as well as a number of reports and journal articles.

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	Preface (preface.pdf, 39KB)
	Chapter 1: How Healthy Are The G7 Countries? (ch01.pdf, 5483KB)
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Key Features
Currency: Covers contemporary economic issues that students will know, for example the economic impact of global terrorism, asylum and immigration issues and the bursting of the dotcom bubble.

Author: Written by David Begg, one of Europe's foremost economists and economics advisor to the British Treasury.

Illustrative material: Extensively illustrated to enhance students understanding with tables, data, maps and pictures.

Pedagogy: Comprehensive range of features including margin definitions of concepts raised in the text. Useful URLs and further reading after each section encourage students to investigate topics in more depth.

Real examples: Global Economics: Contemporary Issues for 2002 complements both Economics 6e and Foundations of Economics by providing real world examples of theory discussed in both texts. References link the text to relevant sections in Economics 6e and Foundations of Economics.

Table of Contents
Preface Test Quiz
1) How healthy are the G7 Countries?
2) The dot.com massacre
3) Who caused the fuel crisis? Did it need solving?
4) European monetary union: a progress report.
5) Asylum and immigration: getting beyond the rhetoric.
6) Economics - A Nobel Science
7) Final postscript: after the terrorists struck
8) Conclusion
9) Economic and Financial indicators
10) Late extra: the 2001 Nobel prize winners (e-Book version only)

Other books by David Begg:

	Economics, 6/e by Begg, Fischer & Dornbusch
	Foundations of Economics, 1/e by Begg, Fischer & Dornbusch