Guide to economics for Filipinos - Villegas, Bernardo M. (Manila Sinag-Tala Publishers, 1991)
Table of Contents: Preface -- Part I. Economics and the Filipino Citizen: 1. Economics as a Social Science -- 2. Economic Wants and the Filipino Citizen -- 3. Economic Resources and The Filipino Citizen -- 4. The Tool of Economics -- Part II. Economic Systems: 5. The Need for an Economic System -- 6. The Choice of an Economic System -- Part III. The Philippine Economic System -- 7. The Evolution of the Market Economy -- 8. The Development and Characteristics of the Philippine Market Economy -- Part IV. The Law of Supply and Demand: 9. The Demand for a Product -- 10. The Supply of a Product -- 11. The Determination of Price -- 12. Supply and Demand Interaction -- 13. Prices and the Consumer -- Part V. The Economics of Competition: 14. The Social Role of Competition -- 15. Competition Among the Many -- 16. The Absence of Competition -- 17. Competition Among the Few -- Part VI. The Economics of the Nation: 18. The National Economy -- 19. The measurement of National Income -- 20. The Goals of Economic Policy -- 21. Monetary Policy -- 22. Fiscal Policy -- 23. International Trade -- Part VII. Introduction to Economic Development: 24. Meaning of Development -- 25. The State and Development -- 26. Taxation and Development -- 27. Industrialization and Development -- 28. Regional Economic Development -- 29. The Economics of Labor -- 30. On Poverty -- 31. The Informal Economy -- 32. Agrarian Reform and Development -- 33. The Environment and Sustainable Economic Development -- Index.
Includes index.
Keywords: Economics; Philippines -- Economic conditions -- 1946-1986.