The Wall Street Journal - Workbook [antikvár]

Kil l J„! i^Mmwwmm' Preface Students enroll in introductory economics courses for a variety of reasons. Many do so, I suppose, because it's a requirement for graduation, or because they feel they "ought" to discover how the world of money and business works. These students expect something dry and deadening and all too often, that's what they get. Other students are truly curious about the economic forces that shape their lives and influence the historical currents of societies and nations. When such students encounter Instead an abstract hypothetical course, they are severely disappointed. Your instructor's use of this workbook shows that he or she Is determined to bring economics to life for you and wants you to see Its principles not as some dry, abstruse set of numerical theories, but as a powerful tool for understanding the universe of business and finance. This workbook will show you how economists and businesspeople cmalyze each day's news from the world of production, work, and finance, and how you, too, can evaluate this stream of data In order to assemble a reasonable understanding of current events as well as a forecast of future developments. Michael B. Lehmaim