Living Economy:
Reuters Guide to the Economy
of Modern Britain

By Jenny Scott
December 2001
Financial Times / Pearson Education
ISBN: 0-273-65017-3
312 pages, Illustrated
$47.50 Paper Original

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Some of the issues covered include: a review of the major economists and what they thought; turning the wheels of the business cycle; downside to global growth; taxpayer's purse; does the government control the economy?; inflation, borrowing, interest; electronic commerce; trade unions; derivatives; getting the most out of trade; redrawing the European economic map; world's major central banks; the IMF; the World Bank; the WTO; conclusion; glossary; index. The author, a member of the Reuters economics desk and a reporter for the BBC, served as an analyst with the Bank of England.

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