English for Econnomics 经济英语 修订本PDF电子书下载

CONTENTS 1

Part One International Economics 1

Unit One：Basic Economic Concepts 1

Lesson 1 What is Economics About？ 1

Lesson 2 Economics as a Language 5

Lesson 3 Consumer Choice and the Law of Demand 10

Lesson 4 Markets 16

Lesson 5 Shifts in Demand 19

Unit Two：Money and Banking 23

Lesson 6 Creation of Money 23

Lesson 7 The Function of Money and the Existence of Inflation 27

Lesson 8 Gresham’s Law and the Attributes of a“Good”Currency 30

Lesson 9 A Central Bank Control the Quantity of Money 34

Lesson 10 The Functions of the Bank of England 39

Unit Three：International Finance 44

Lesson 11 The“Purchasing Power Parity”Theory of Foreign Exchange 44

Lesson 12 The Organization and Functions of the Stock Exchange 48

Lesson 13 Demand and Cost Inflation 53

Lesson 14 Black Markets for Foreign Exchange 57

Lesson 15 Exchange Rates and External“Imbalances” 61

Unit Four：International Trade 65

Lesson 16 The Basis for Trade 65

Lesson 17 Trade Tips and Comparative Advantage 69

Lesson 18 Why Is There Trade Between Nations？ 74

Lesson 19 Quotas and Tariffs 79

Lesson 20 The Measures Available to the Government to Limit Imports 86

Part Two：Selected Readings 91

1．Tobacco Industry：The Last Drag？ 91

2．Luxury Hotels：Playing Monopoly 97

3．Foreign Exchange：Unsettling 103

4．Flat Screens：Crystal Diplomacy 109

5．Turkish Banks：Sweating 115

6．European Insurance：Unleashed 120

7．Indonesian Banking：Golden Key Hole 126

8．East German Privatisation：Fast and Loose 131

9．Spanish Banks：Botin’s Bid 137

10．Indian Privatisation：Disconnected 143

11．On Wall Street：This Too Shall Pass 148

12．Chickens and Eggs 157

13．Market Manias and Murphy’s Law 167

14．CFA-franc Zone：Out of Africa 176

15．Can Clinton Bounce Back？ 184

16．Chastising Blunkett 192

17．A Delicate Balance at the Bank 200

18．Fear of Crime：Safety in Numbers 208

19．Back from the Land of the Living Dead 216

20．Fields of Green-and Disaster Areas 224

Part Three：20 Outstanding Economists 233

1．Adam Smith （1723—1790） 233

2．Jeremy Bentham （1748—1832） 236

3．Thomas Robert Malthus （1766—1834） 239

4．Jean Baptiste Say （1767—1832） 242

5．David Ricardo （1772—1823） 245

6．Antoine Augustin Cournot（1801—1877） 249

7．John Stuart Mill（1806—1873） 252

8．Karl Marx （1818—1883） 255

9．William Stanley Jevons（1835—1882） 258

10．Henry George（1839—1897） 261

11．Alfred Marshall （1842—1924） 264

12．John Bates Clark（1847—1938） 267

13．Knut Wicksell （1851—1926） 270

14．Thorstein B．Veblen （1857—1929） 274

15．Wesley C．Mitehell （1874—1948） 277

16．Arthur Cecil Pigou （1877—1959） 280

17．John Maynard Keynes（1883—1946） 283

18．Joseph Alois Schumpeter（1883—1950） 286

19．Oskar Morgenstern （1902—1977） 289

20．A．W．Phillips （1914—1975） 292