What You Need To Know About Economics

INDEX

A

Age demographics 107

Alcohol 231–2

Annual Growth Rate 6–7

Argentina 35, 241

Asian crisis (1997) 135–7, 139, 144

B

Balance of payments 123–7, 133, 135–6

Bank of England 71–3, 104, 130, 152–3, 166, 171–2, 182–3, 186, 194, 201, 205–6

Bank for International Settlements 210

Banks (central) 181–211

Key functions 182–5

Cash flow 12

Forecasting 192–4

History 185–6

Money supply 154–7

Stabilisation roles 208–10

Tools and methods 186–210

see also Interest rates; Quantitative easing

Barro, Robert 199–200, 226

Behavioural economics 274

Benefits and allowances 9–10, 83–4

Bernanke, Ben 205

Big Mac index 134–5

Bills 236–7

Bonds 158, 172–3, 235–40

Credit ratings 239–40

Borrowing money 167–79

Bubbles 32–3, 177–8

Housing 32, 258, 272–6

Budget deficits ...