bit of help: economics

k unis getting pretty heavy just now and its the 1st acadfemic thign in my life ive ever actually had to work at to get by so im trying my best to do well and i want to do some brilliant coursework essays so the exams isnt as hard on me.

anyways next in the running is economics and the question is about the purposes of free markets (holds the jeers all u lefties) and if theres justification of government intervention in free markets.

anyways im just trying to get alot of examples and test from other sources than just the book they recomend so do any of u know any good website regarding free market economies or books i should be looking up?


or if ur really nice and uve done a similar question u cud just send me that instead

Try the World Trade Organisation website. Many articles on the web on the Avd & Disadv of free trade. But watch out for the Bias.

I'm assuming your talking about the implications of monetary and/or fiscal policy on output levels, interest rates, supply and demand levels etc?

If you are, then the best places to start would be any intermediate macroeconomics textbook. The ones I use are by "Abel, Bernanke, Mcnabb", "Minford, Peel", "Parkin, Bade". I can't remember what they're called though sorry, but probably something like advanced macroeconomics or summit.

If you are meant to be looking at the implications of monetary/fiscal policy, then I'm assuming you're looking at the classical or neo-classical model, so my suggestion would be to focus on Ricardian Equivalence for Fiscal policy, and the adjusment of the Aggregate supply curve under adaptive, and more importantly rational expectations in both the short and long run for Monetary policy.

Sloman is a good book too!!

I read Blanchard.

Doesn't the government already intervene in free markets? Taxes and stuff like that?

Yeah, he's got to say whether or not it is justified.