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《A beginner's guide to the world economy : seventy-seven basic economic concepts that will change the way you see the world》, Charles Epping, published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1995.

CONTENTS
1. What Is the World Economy? 3
2. How Is Wealth Determined Around the World? 4
3. What Is Macroeconomics? 6
4. How Does International Trade Function? 8
5. What Are Trade Surpluses and Deficits? 10
6. How Does Foreign Ownership Affect a Country's Economy? 12
7. What Is Money? 13
8. What Are the World's Major Currencies? 16
9. What Are Freely Floating Currencies? 18
10. What Are Exchange Rates? 20
11. What Is GNP? 22
12. What Is Inflation? 24
13. How Can the World's Economies Be Compared? 26
14. What Is Money Supply? 27
15. What Is a Central Bank? 29
16. How Do Central Banks Regulate an Economy? 32
17. How Are Interest Rates Used to control an Economy? 35
18. What Is Free Trade? 36
19. What Are Quotas, Tariffs, and subsidies? 38
20. How Do Budget Deficits Affect Trade Deficits? 40
21. Why Are Companies Referred to as Ltd., Inc., Gmbh, or S.A.? 42

22. What Is Equity? 44
23. What Is a Balance Sheet? 45
24. What Is a Profit and Loss Statement? 47
25. What Is Net Worth? 49
26. How Are Companies Compared Internationally? 51
27. What Is a Leveraged Buyout? 52
28. How Do Companies in the Global Economy Transcend
National Boundaries? 54
29. How Are International Investments Compared? 57
30. What Are the Risks of International Investing? 58
31. What Is a Stock Index? 61
32. How Do Investors Buy Foreign Shares? 62
33. What Is an Equity Fund? 64
34. What Is Bankruptcy? 66
35. What Is a Capital Market? 67
36. What Is a Bond? 69
37. How Are Bonds Traded? 71
38. What Are Eurocurrencies and Eurobonds? 73
39. How Are Ratings Used to Evaluate Investments? 75
40. How Is Gold Used as an International Investment? 76
41. What Are Derivatives? 78
42. What Is an Option? 80
43. What Are Puts and Calls? 83
44. What Is a Currency Option? 84
45. What Is a Warrant? 86
46. Who Invests in the Global Marketplace? 88
47. What Is Hot Money90

48. How Do Investors and Businesses Use Information Technology
to Access the Global Economy? 94
49. What Are the Forces Behind European Economic Unity? 97
50. What Is the European Union? 99
51. How Do Communist Countries Participate in the
World Economy? 101
52. How Did the Socialist Countries of the Soviet Bloc Make
the Transition to Capitalism? 104
53. What Is the Pacific Rim Economy? 106
54. What Is Japan Inc.? 108
55. What Is NAFTA? 110
56. What Are Free-Trade Megazones? 112
57. What Is the Third World? 116
58. What Are the Roots of Third World Poverty? 118
59. What Are the Origins of the Third World's Debt? 119
60. What Is Hyperinflation? 121
61. What Are Economic Austerity Plans? 123
62. What Can Be Done to Promote Third World Development? 125
63. How Is Global Economic Cooperation Encouraged? 127
64. What Is the World Trade Organization? 128
65. What Are Regional Development Banks? 130
66. What Are the IMF and the World Bank? 132
67. How Is Corruption Part of the World Economy? 134
68. What Is Money Laundering? 135
69. How Does a Swiss Bank Account Work? 137
70. What Is a Tax Haven? 139
71. How Do International Criminals Escape Prosecution? 140
72. What Are Black Markets? 142
73. How Is Slavery Part of the World Economy? 143
74. How Is the Environment Affected by the World Economy? 146

75. What Are Pollution Rights? 148
76. What Is a Debt-For-Nature Swap? 150
77. How Can Economic Sanctions and Incentives Be Used
to Protect the Environment? 152
GLOSSARY 155

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