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How to Find Out About Economics

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1972
  • S. A. J. Parsons
  • G. Chandler
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 4 8 3 - 1
How to Find Out About Economics focuses on information sources related to economics, including books, periodicals, government publications, and national and international organizations. The sources of arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification used by many libraries. This book is comprised of 17 chapters and begins with an overview of modern economics and guides to careers in economics. The following chapters focus on sources of employment registers and careers advice in economics; career and vocational guidance in the United States; and career patterns for economists. The discussion then turns to two categories of information relating to economics: bibliographical sources such as books, periodicals, abstracts, and similar printed documents; and non-bibliographical sources such as organizations and societies formed, for example, by economists or persons having an interest in economics. The book also considers libraries and their functions; guides to library resources; sources of education for careers in economics; and sources of economic history, business history, and biography. This monograph will be a useful resource for students and others interested in embarking on a career in economics.

A One-Year Accounting Course

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1969
  • Trevor Gambling
  • R Brown + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 3 7 9 0 - 2

How to Find Out About Banking and Investment

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1969
  • Norman Burgess
  • G. Chandler
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 7 2 3 - 8
How to Find Out About Banking and Investment focuses on the sources of information on banking and investment. The publication first ponders on careers, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and libraries and guides to libraries. Discussions focus on guides to the resources of libraries, Banking Information Service, Bank Education Service, education and examinations in America, sources of information on careers, finance houses, joint stock banking, foreign and merchant banks, and the London Stock Exchange. The text then takes a look at bibliographies and literature guides, periodical literature, financial economics, banks and banking, and central banking classification. Topics include library catalogues, guides to reference works, periodicals concerned with banking and finance, money and banking in the United States, financial institutions and economic development, banking in Europe, European Economic Community, and banking in the United States. The book takes a look at interest and discount, credit and instruments of credit, foreign and overseas investment, and merchant and investment banking. The publication is a dependable source of information for researchers and bankers wanting to explore banking and investment.

Science and Starvation

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1968
  • Donald J. Hughes
  • D. F. Bratchell + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 3 9 4 8 - 7
Science and Starvation: An Introduction to Economic Development provides an understanding of the nature of the process of development itself both in developed and developing countries. This book serves as a guide to the complexities of the interrelated problems of population, food, and economic development all over the world. Organized into three parts encompassing 13 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the essential differences between the nature and the technique of the social and physical sciences. This text then examines the paradox of the scientific world with poverty and mass hunger. Other chapters consider the geographical distribution of poverty and examine the vicious cycle of disease and hunger. The final chapter deals with the effect of people on economic development. This book is a valuable resource for teachers involved in liberal studies in higher education. Social scientists and students engaged in international relations will also find this book useful.