Business Economics

Business Economics

by Andrew Gillespie (Author)

Synopsis

What determines demand for Apple's iPad? How can whole countries go bust? Why did Tesco's UK profits fall? Featuring top practitioners from organizations including Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Simon-Kucher & Partners and Mission Burrito, Business Economics offers students real insight into how economics is used in business and why it is relevant to their future careers. Renowned for its engaging style and clarity of explanation, students are carefully guided through economic concepts and models, with stimulating examples and questions to reinforce learning and test understanding. Video walkthroughs help explain more difficult economic concepts and give readers the opportunity to go back over what they have learnt. Packed full of engaging and topical cases which students can easily relate to, the author considers economics in the context of business and management, equipping students with the tools necessary to apply economics to business issues and decisions. For students - Full solutions to questions in the textbook - Video walkthroughs of economics concepts - Self-test questions - One step further material to stretch and challenge readers For registered adopters of the textbook - Fully customizable Powerpoint slides - Case study teaching notes - Group exercise tasks - Test bank

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 528
Edition: 2
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 07 Feb 2013

ISBN 10: 0199657998
ISBN 13: 9780199657995

Media Reviews
More concise and engaging than other business economics textbooks. * Dr. Joe Cox, Senior Lecturer/Economics Course Leader, University of Portsmouth *
Students studying our business economics module achieve high average grades and review the module positively in their feedback. An important contribution to these positive outcomes is Business Economics by Andrew Gillespie. Our students consider it to be accessible and clearly written, and I would unreservedly recommend this textbook for all introductory Business Economics modules. * Maurice Starkey, Lecturer in Economics, Sheffield Hallam University *
Author Bio
Andrew Gillespie is Head of Business Studies and Accounts, d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford, and Visiting lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. He is the author of Foundations of Economics 2e, Oxford University Press, 2011.