APPLIED ECONOMICS 10TH EDITION, Edited by Alan Griffiths and Stuart Wall, FT Prentice Hall, 2004, 668 pages, paperback, £36.99, ISBN. This is the tenth edition of a text which first appeared in 1984, an average of one edition every two years. The style and structure of the book remains virtually unaltered. Indeed, I used the chapter on Firm Objectives using copies of the fifth, sixth, seventh and this edition with A level students recently without students getting puzzled over the inclusion of new information. I sometimes wonder about bringing out updated versions of a text quite so rapidly. The old problem that no sooner has the text been published than someone, usually the pesky government, changes something, still applies.

Applied Economics has been caught on the hop this time by the introduction of the CPI target of 2% for inflation rather than the 2.5% RPI target. Nevertheless, the intended audience, undergraduates and good A-level students, are still likely to benefit from the mix of theory and evidence that is apparent in most chapters. The book is divided into four useful sections: theory of the firm; environmental, regional and social economics; macroeconomics; and international economics, and is firmly focused on the application of economic theory to the UK economy. The diagrams and theories used are suitable for students at A2 level and above and would perhaps be considered a bit simple for good undergraduates who have been introduced to more complex analysis than demand and supply, marginalism and aggregate demand and supply. The tenth edition introduces a chapter on globalization at the expense of a chapter on the economics of developing countries.

The discussion of globalization is useful for setting out the characteristics of the process and the author provides some support for the view that we are experiencing a process 'characterised by major changes' in new markets, new actors, new rules and norms, and new methods of communication. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Xbox 360 Iso on this page. The author introduces the likely impact on corporate strategy, with an emphasis on modular strategies, and then goes on to outline a transformationalist view of the process looking at the impact 'on economic, social and political environments' (e.g. 9/11,SARS, and Antiglobalizationists) but not taking a prescriptive stance of what those impacts might be. I suspect the majority of students will interpret this as 'we just don't know', however the thoughtful student might pick up on issues raised such as whether the introduction of the Euro enables European economies to better withstand the forces of change throughout the world or whether globalization helps close the gap between economies in relative terms.

APPLIED ECONOMICS 10TH EDITION, Edited by Alan Griffiths and Stuart Wall, FT Prentice Hall, 2004, 668 pages, paperback, £36.99, ISBN.

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Lecturers and teachers would have to do some work on providing a wider reading list than is suggested at the end of topics to follow up on potential issues raised. Each chapter only provides references to work used for the production of the chapter.

Most of the statistical information from official sources is brought up to 2002. Some of the studies used to judge the extent to which theories apply to the real world could do with updating. I can't quite believe that the most recent studies on the price elasticities of demand for UK exports and imports date from 1980, for instance.

There is a tendency for chapters to reuse the theory outlined in previous editions with the associated applied studies. New developments and studies are then tagged on so that when that pesky government introduces different tax credits or the New Deal these are mentioned. The evaluation of these is a bit sketchy due to the reliance on published applied research to assess the impact of policy changes. For instance, the evaluation of inflation targeting relies on an article by one M.

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