Economics for policy makers : a guide for non-economists / Gustavo Rinaldi.

Includes indexes.

Introduction -- Economic profit -- Value added -- Production and costs -- Production and productivity -- Costs -- Economies of scale -- Customers and competitors -- Demand for the products of an industry and of a monopolist -- Market environments -- Macroeconomics -- Introduction to macroeconomics -- Key words of national accounts -- Money and prices -- Foreign economic relations -- The foreign trade of goods : exports and imports -- Financial movements -- International accounts -- Fiscal policy -- Monetary transfers : taxes, benefits, subsidies and social contributions (T) -- Government spending on goods and services : (G) -- Public spending on education, training, research and development -- Public deficit and public debt -- Private demand -- Household consumption (C): the main destination of -- Private investment (I): supplying the private sector with new capital -- The labour market and inequality -- The labour market -- Income distribution and its effects -- Appendix: indexes of competitiveness.