《经济英语》

Unit One：Basic Economic Concepts1

Lesson 1.What is Economics About？1

Part One：International Economics1

Lesson 2.Economics as a Language5

Lesson 3.Consumer Choice and the Law of Demand10

Lesson 4.Markets16

Lesson 5.Shifts in Demand19

Unit Two：Money and Banking23

Lesson 6.Creation of Money23

Lesson 7.The Function of Money and the Existence of Inflation27

Lesson 8.Gresham‘s Law and the Attributes of a“Good”Currency30

Lesson 9.A Central Bank Control the Quantity of Money34

Lesson 10.The Functions of the Bank of England38

Lesson 11.The“Purchasing Power Parity”Theory of Foreign Exchange43

Unit Three：International Finance43

Lesson 12.The Organization and Functions of the Stock Exchange47

Lesson 13.Demand and Cost Inflation51

Lesson 14.Black Market for Foreign Exchange55

Lesson 15.Exchange Rates and External“Imbalances”59

Unit Four：International Trade63

Lesson 16.The Basis for Trade63

Lesson 17.Trade Tips and Comparative Advantage67

Lesson 18.Why Is There T？ade Between Nations？72

Lesson 19.Quotas and Tariffs77

Lesson 20.The Measures Available to the Government to Limit Imports83

Unit Five：Operations Management87

Lesson 21.History of Operations Management87

Lesson 22.Technology and the Manager92

Lesson 23.The IBM Story of Good Work-force Management95

Lesson 24.Scientific Management99

Lesson 25.Time Management107

Part Two：25 Outstanding Economists112

Reading 1.Adam Smith(1723—1790)112

Reading 2.Jeremy Bentham(1748—1832)115

Reading 3.Thomas Robert Malthus(1766—1834)118

Reading 4.Jean Baptiste Say(1767—1832)121

Reading 5.David Ricardo(1772—1823)124

Reading 6.Antoine Augustin Cournot(1801—1877)127

Reading 7.John Stuart Mill(1806—1873)130

Reading 8.Karl Marx(1818—1883)133

Reading 9.William Stanley Jevons(1835—1882)136

Reading 10.Henry George(1839—1897)139

Reading 11.Alfred Marshall(1842—1924)142

Reading 12.John Bates Clark(1847—1938)145

Reading 13.Knut Wicksell(1851—1926)148

Reading 14.Thorstein B.Veblen(1857—1929)151

Reading 15.Wesley C.Mitchell(1874—1948)154

Reading 16.Arthur Cecil Pigou(1877—1959)157

Reading 17.John Maynard Keynes(1883—1946)160

Reading 18.Joseph Alois Schumpeter(1883—1950)163

Reading 19.Oskar Morgenstern(1902—1977)166

Reading 20.John Kenneth Galbraith(1908—)169

Reading 21.Milton Friedman(1912—)173

Reading 22.A.W.Phillips(1914—1975)176

Reading 23.Paul Anthony Samuelson(1915—)179

Reading 24.James Tobin(1918—)182

Reading 25.James Buchanan (1919—)185

总词汇表188