کتاب "راهنمای شاخص های اقتصادی، ایجاد حس اقتصاد" انگلیسی

 

   

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راهنمای شاخص های اقتصادی، ایجاد حس اقتصاد

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کد محصول: 8017
 

 

نام کتاب به زبان اصلی:

GUIDE TO ECONOMIC INDICATORS, Making Sense of Economics

کتاب به زبان انگلیسی است

سال: 2006

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Additional research Sophie Brown, Carol Howard, Stella Jones, Ulric Spencer

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Additional research Sophie Brown, Carol Howard, Stella Jones, Ulric Spencer

Contents

1 Interpreting economic indicators 1
2 Essential mechanics 12
3 Measuring economic activity 28
Omissions 30
Output, expenditure and income 32
Prices 38
Putting it in context 39
Reliability 40
4 Growth: trends and cycles 41
Nominal GDP 43
GDP per head 45
Real GDP 46
GDP: output 49
GDP: expenditure 50
Productivity 51
Cyclical or leading indicators 54
5 Population, employment and unemployment 58
Population 59
Labour or workforce 61
Employment 64
Unemployment and vacancies 66
6 Fiscal indicators 71
Public expenditure 72
Government revenues 76
Budget balance, deficit, surplus 79
National debt; government or public debt 83
7 Consumers 85
Personal income, disposable income 86
Consumer and personal expenditure, private consumption 88
Personal and household savings; savings ratio 92
Consumer confidence 94
8 Investment and savings 96
Fixed investment and GDFCF 98
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Investment intentions 102
Stocks (inventories) 103
National savings, savings ratio 105
9 Industry and commerce 108
Business conditions; indices and surveys 110
Industrial and manufacturing production 112
Capacity use and utilisation 115
Manufacturing orders 117
Motor vehicles 119
Construction orders and output 120
Housing starts, completions and sales 122
Wholesale sales or turnover, orders and stocks 124
Retail sales or turnover, orders and stocks 125
10 The balance of payments 127
Accounting conventions 127
Imports of goods and services 131
Exports of goods and services 136
Trade balance, merchandise trade balance 138
Current-account balance 141
Capital- and financial-account flows 144
International investment position (IIP) 144
Official reserves 145
External debt, net foreign assets 146
11 Exchange rates 148
Nominal exchange rates 150
Special drawing rights (SDRs) 154
EMU, ecu, ERM and euro 157
Effective exchange rates 160
Real exchange rates; competitiveness 162
Terms of trade 165
12 Money and financial markets 167
Money supply, money stock, M0 ... M5, liquidity 168
Bank lending, advances, credit, consumer credit 173
Central bank policy rates 174
Interest rates; short-term and money-market rates 176
Bond yields 179
Yield curves, gaps and ratios 181
Real interest rates and yields 184
Share prices and yields 185
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13 Prices and wages 187
Price indicators 190
Gold price 193
Oil prices 195
Commodity price indices 197
Export and import prices; unit values 205
Producer and wholesale prices 206
Surveys of price expectations 209
Wages, earnings and labour costs 210
Unit labour costs 213
Consumer or retail prices 214
Consumer or private expenditure deflators 218
GDP deflators 219
Appendix: Useful websites 221
Index

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