Cover
Contents
Introduction
World Map, Map of Europe
Maps - Purchasing Power, Population
1. What is the World Economy?
2. How is Wealth Determined Around the World?
3. What is Macroeconomics?
4. How Does International Trade Function?
5. What are Trade Supluses and Deficits?
6. How does Foreign Ownership Affect a Country's Economy?
7. What is Money?
8. What are the World's Major Currencies?
9. What are Freely Floating Currencies?
10. What are Exchange Rates?
11. What is GNP?
12. What is Inflation?
13. How can the World's Economies be Compared?
14. What is Money Supply?
15. What is a Central Bank?
16. How do Central Banks Regulate an Economy?
17. How are Interest Rates used to Control an Economy?
18. What is Free Trade?
19. What are Quotas, Tariffs, and Subsidies?
20. How do Budget Deficits Affect Trade Deficits?
21. Why are Companies Referred to as LTD., INC., GMBH, or S.A.?
22. What is Equity?
23. What is a Balance Sheet?
24. What is a Profit and Loss Statement?
25. What is Net Worth?
26. How are Companies Compared Internationally?
27. What is a Leveraged Buyout?
28. How do Companies in the Global EUceonomy Transcend National Boundaries?
29. How are International Investments Compared?
30. What are the Risks of International Investing?
31. What is a Stock Index?
32. How do Investors Buy Foreign Shares?
33. What is an Equity Fund?
34. What is Bankruptcy?
35. What is a Capital Market?
36. What is a Bond?
37. How are Bonds Traded?
38. What are Eurocurrencies and Eurobonds?
39. How are ratings used to Evaluate Investments?
40. How is Gold Used as an International Investment?
41. What are Derivatives?
42. What is an Option?
43. What are Puts and Calls?
44. What is a Currency Option?
45. What is a Warrant?
46. Who Invests in the Global Marketplace?
47. What is Hot Money?
48. How do Investors and Businesses use Information Technology to Access The Global Economy?
49. What are the Forces Behind European Economic Unity?
50. What is the European Union?
51. How do Communist Countries Participate in the World Economy?
52. How did the Socialist Countries of the Soviet Bloc Make The Transition to Capitalism?
53. What is the Pacific Rim Economy?
54. What is Japan INC.?
55. What is NAFTA?
56. What are Free-Trade Megazones?
57. What is the Third World?
58. What are the Roots of Third World Poverty?
59. What are the Origins of the Third World's Debt?
60. What in Hyperinflation?
61. What are Economic Austerity Plans?
62. What can be done to Promote Third World Development?
63. How is Global Economic Cooperation Encouraged?
64. What is the World Trade Organization?
65. What are Regional Development Banks?
66. What are the INF and the World Bank?
67. How is Corruption Part of the World Economy?
68. What is Money Laundering?
69. How does a Swiss Bank Account Work?
70. What is a Tax Haven?
71. How do International Criminals Escape Prosecution?
72. What are Black Markets?
73. How is Slavery Part of the World Economy?
74. How is the Environment Affected by the World Economy?
75. What are Pollution Rights?
76. What is a Debt-for-Nature Swap?
77. How can Economic Sanctions and Incentives be used to Protect the Environment?
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