Markets and the Economy: Prices, Businesses, Competition, Work, Investment, Growth, Crises, and How the Economy Works (Economics and Finance) - Softcover

Albuquerque, César

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798182826808

Verlag: Hermes Socraticus, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Millions of individual decisions influence prices, production, jobs, and investment without relying on a single central authority. This book helps you understand how markets work by showing how scarcity, incentives, supply, demand, costs, and expectations coordinate the choices of consumers, businesses, and investors. The book examines how firms organize production, pursue productivity and profit, and compete for consumers. By analyzing competition, monopolies, oligopolies, network effects, and regulation, it explains why some markets remain competitive while others concentrate economic power. It also explores situations in which prices fail to incorporate all the costs and benefits involved in production and consumption decisions. The analysis extends to the labor market, wages, unemployment, automation, consumption, saving, and investment. By connecting household, business, and financial decisions, the book shows how credit, risk, technology, productivity, and expectations influence economic activity and the opportunities available to individuals and firms. The discussion concludes with economic growth, innovation, development, recessions, bubbles, business cycles, economic policy, and international trade. The result is an integrated view of how decentralized decisions are transformed into production, income, employment, investment, and structural change across the economy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hermes Socraticus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798182826808
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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