Environmental Economics is a sub-field of economics concerned with environmental issues. It undertakes theoretical or empirical studies of the economic effects of national or local environmental policies around the world. Particular issues include the cos 1st ed. 300p., Tables.

Economics is being employed by individuals and societies since prehistoric times for their betterment and to satisfy their wants even before it was recognised as a subject or as a special area of scientific study of choices made by individuals and societi 1st ed. vi+302p., vi+303-608p., vi+609-926p., Tables, Figures.

The economy of India is the fourth largest in the world as measured by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). It is the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 8.1% at the end of the first quarter of 2005. The country's econom 1st ed. viii+292p.

Economics can be defined as the scientific study of the choices made by individuals and societies in regard to the alternative uses of scarce resources which are employed to satisfy wants. Humans devise systems to share out these scarce resources between 1st ed. 2944p., Illustrations; 23cm.

Business economics as a profession was largely unknown until the depression ridden 1930s, when economists assumed important positions in the government. As an academic discipline, economics goes back more than two centuries. Business began to employ econo 1st ed. viii+306p., Tables, Figures.

Globalisation is the changes in societies and the world economy that result from dramatically increased international trade and cultural exchange. It describes the increase of trade and investing due to the falling of barriers and the interdependence of c 1st ed. viii+288p., Figures, Tables.

India's leaders adopted the principle of formal economic planning soon after independence as an effective way to intervene in the economy to foster growth and social justice. Fiver decades of planning show that India's economy, a mix of public and private 1st ed. viii+286p., Tables.

Fiscal policy is the means by which a government adjusts its levels of spending in order to monitor and influence a nation's economy. When the government decides on the taxes that it collects, the transfer payments it gives out, or the goods and services 1st ed. viii+284p.

International Economics is the study of economic interactions among countries -- including trade, investment, financial transactions and movement of people -- and the policies and institutions that influence them. More and more, businesses, governments an 1st ed. 314p., Figures, Tables.

Macroeconomics is the economics subfield of study that considers aggregate behaviour, i.e., the study of the sum of individual economic decisions. In other words, it is the study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services pro 1st ed. viii+288p.