Unit 1 1
Text A What Is Economics? 2
Text B Why Do College Graduates Earn Higher Wages? 10
Unit 2 13
Text A What Is Money? 14
Text B Who's Afraid of the People's Money? 23
Unit 3 27
Text A Banking on Service 28
Text B Impacts of Foreign Entry on the Domestic Banking Market 38
Unit 4 41
Text A Smart Cards:Key to Cashless Economy 42
Text B Give Me Some Credit 52
Unit 5 57
Text A Ringing Tones of Success 58
Text B What Is Market Efficiency? 66
Unit 6 69
Text A Stock Market and Corporate Stocks 70
Text B The Stock Market and Macroeconomic Instability 81
Unit 7 83
Text A Managing Financial Crises 84
Text B Web Tax Ban Aids Shoppers,Hurts States 93
Unit 8 97
Text A Are Foreign Producers Dumping Their Products? 98
Text B U.S.Moves to Limit Textile Imports from China 105
Unit 9 109
Text A Methods of Payment in International Trade 110
Text B How Companies Use the Internet 122
Unit 10 125
Text A Monopoly in the International Market 126
Text B Rich Nations Miss a Golden Opportunity to Back Fair Trade 139