Economics Making Sense of the Modern Economy

by Cox, Simon

• ISBN13: 9781861975454
• ISBN10: 1861975457
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Bloomberg Press

Summary

Making sense of the modern economy

Author Biography

Simon Cox is The Economist's economics correspondent. He contributed to chapter nine. He is also the editor of this book.

Contributors
Brian Barry is The Economist's business correspondent based in Chicago. He contributed articles to chapters five and nine.

Simon Cox is The Economist's economics correspondent. He contributed to chapter nine. He is also the editor of this book.

Clive Crook was deputy editor of The Economist. He wrote chapters one and eight, and contributed to chapter nine.

Robert Guest was Africa editor of The Economist and is now the paper's Washington correspondent. He contributed to chapter nine.

Patrick Lane is the finance editor of The Economist. He contributed to chapter nine.

Marc Levinson was finance editor of The Economist. He wrote chapter six.

Zanny Minton-Beddoes is Washington economics editor of The Economist. She wrote chapter three, and contributed to chapter nine.

David Shirreff is The Economist's finance and business correspondent based in Frankfurt. He contributed to chapter five.

John Smutniak was The Economist's economics correspondent. He contributed to chapter nine.

Paul Wallace is The Economist's UK economics correspondent. He contributed to chapter nine.

Pam Woodall is economics editor of The Economist. She wrote chapters two and four. She also contributed to chapters seven, five and nine.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The new liberalism.

1 The case for globalization.

Part 2 The lopsided world economy.

2 The phoney recovery.

3 America's imbalances.

4 China's rise.

5 The underachievers.

Part 3 The arteries of capitalism.

6 Finance.

7 Central bank.

8 Global capital.

Part 4 Worldly philosophy.

9 The uses and abuses of economics.

Index.