Nancy Wall Livres

Publication September 2015 978-1-78014-014-8 This book has been written specifically for Theme 2 of Edexcel's new Economics B syllabus for AS and A Level commencing in September 2015. The authors are Nancy Wall who is a former Editor of "Teaching Business and Economics" and works in curriculum development and Brian Ellis, a former Chief Examiner for Edexcel's A Level Economics and Business Course and Chair of Examiners. This book is in full colour and runs to 120 pages and includes many case studies, exam style questions and an index of key terms. The full contents of the book Why do we want growth? How do firms grow? The role of research and innovation The digital economy Small business and competition Price elasticity of demand How is price decided? Exploring other marketing strategies Does income affect demand? Why does productivity matter? Capacity utilisation How do firms achieve efficiency? Efficiency, costs and competitive advantage How did globalisation change our world? Growth and development How significant is international trade? Why do exchange rates matter? What is the economic cycle? The circular flow of income Inflation and its consequences Employment and unemployment Exploring macroeconomic priorities What policies will we choose? What will the problems be?

"This book is a critique of rationalism. It aims to explain both its powerful contributions to mathematics and physical sciences, where our arithmetical, geometrical, and mechanical intuitions have had a highly productive role in the development of pure theory, and its disastrous failures in cosmology and the moral sciences. In these supposed sciences, rationalism has all but destroyed the social conscience of the West, by creating the disastrous political philosophy of neoliberalism. To reset our moral compasses, we must develop new, and socially just versions, of the old welfare states. And, to restore democracy, we must return to Keynesian economic management" -- back cover.

Keep a Green Tree in Your Heart and Perhaps the Singing Bird Will Come, an enticing and intriguing title for a book by co-authors Brian Ellis and Darrel Staley which proudly claims to be Everyman's Guide to the Environment, energy and climate change. Factual, scientific but totally accessible, this work offers the layman a whistle stop tour of all environmental issues set against the modern political backdrop of our age, with insightful and informed comment along the way. Everyone is touched by these issues and Keep a Green Tree in Your Heart aims to bust myths, to inform and educate with more than a touch of humour. This is a must read for anyone who is interested in climatic and environmental issues, in fact for anyone who wants to wake up tomorrow and smell the roses.

The Case for Scientific Realism in Morals, Economics and Politics. Steven Pinker's book Enlightenment Now establishes that great progress has been made on the aims of the European Enlightenment. However, the minds of many economists, moralists and political thinkers in the West are still set firmly in the eighteenth century. Progress has been due mainly to the physical scientific revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the industrial revolutions they generated. A new enlightenment is needed to overcome this poverty of social theory, and bring our economists and political theorists up to date in the socially connected, commercially integrated and existentially threatened world of the 21st century.

Revised to take into account economic developments and changes in A and AS-level syllabuses, this text includes new case studies, an expanded glossary and questions from recent A-level papers.

This book contains all the terminology and material relevant to combined A and A/S level economics and business. Written in an easy-to-use, cross-referenced format, it contains revision lists and a glossary of examiners' terms.