- •Донецький національний університет економіки і торгівлі імені Михайла Туган-Барановського
- •Economics Today
- •Content
- •Texts for Individual Reading
- •Передмова
- •Unit 1. What does economics study?
- •Vocabulary.
- •What does economics study?
- •Money price human wants scarcity
- •What does economics study?
- •Pronouns
- •Unit 2. Different Economic systems.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Different economic systems
- •Outstanding economists.
- •Unit 3. Economics as a social science.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Try to explain the above mentioned economic notions as you understand them, by your own words.
- •Economics as a social science.
- •Economics as a social science
- •Outstanding economists
- •Unit 4. Economics as a policy.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Economics as policy.
- •Economics and policy
- •Outstanding economists.
- •Unit 5. Main economic concepts.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Main economic concepts.
- •Outstanding economists.
- •2. Define:
- •Unit 6. Market, Supply and Demand.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Market, supply and demand
- •What money can’t buy
- •Outstanding economists.
- •Unit 7. Prices and their formation.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Price and its formation.
- •Past Tenses
- •When prices draw us.
- •Outstanding Economists.
- •2. Value:
- •Unit 8. Taxes and Taxation.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Taxes and taxation
- •Past Tenses Past Perfect Simple
- •Past Perfect Continuous
- •Will Germany Start Tax Reform?
- •Crackdown on “alcohol disorder zones”
- •Outstanding economists.
- •Sources of government revenue
- •Public spending
- •Unit 9. Business organization.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Forms of business ownership in the u.S.A.
- •The Formal Organization.
- •Up and Down of People Express
- •Burr’s Business
- •3. Necessity:
- •Unit 10.
- •Forms of business small business
- •I. Can you stick with it?
- •How to make business plan.
- •The Passive Voice
- •Unit 11. Franchising.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Franchising.
- •Evaluate your franchise opportunities.
- •Mc’Donald’s : burger and fries a la français.
- •Invest:
- •5. Tax:
- •Unit 12.
- •International Trade.
- •International trade.
- •How to avoid business blunders abroad.
- •Vocabulary to Text 2.
- •Advertising.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Economic theories.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Main economic concepts.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Management.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Marketing.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Types of economic systems.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 2. Classical Theories.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 3. The Meaning of Management.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •What is you understanding of management?
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 5. Management Activities.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 6. Classical Theories.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 7. Fayol's Principles of Management.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 8. F.W.Taylor and Scientific Management.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 9. The Principles of Scientific Management.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 10. Scientific Management after Taylor.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 1. Comments on the Scientific Management School.
- •Text 2. L.F.Urwick.
- •Text 3. E.F.L.Brech.
- •Text 4. Max Weber and the Idea of Bureaucracy.
- •Text 5. Bureaucracy.
- •Text 6. Bureaucracy after Weber.
- •Questions for Discussions to texts 1-6.
- •Nobel prize winners.
- •1975: Nobel Prizes.
- •Money in our everyday life quotations. Attitudes to money.
- •Giving away money.
- •Money and everyday life.
- •Money and the family.
- •Money at work.
- •Money madness.
- •Possessions.
- •The economic model.
- •The psychology of money.
- •The very rich.
- •Young people, socialisation and money.
- •Poetry.
- •I have some fe a rainy day underneath me bed,
- •Is dis culture yours, cause it is not mine
- •It could do good but it does more bad
- •The coin speaks.
- •The hardship of accounting.
- •The millionaire.
- •Keys unit 1.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 2.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 3.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 4.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 5.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 6.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 7.
- •Train and check yourself
- •Unit 8.
- •Unit 9.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Fill in the chart
- •Unit 10.
- •Unit 11.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 12.
- •Keys to the texts for individual reading
- •Economics Today
Texts for Individual Reading
Text. 1. Introduction to Management Theory…….........................................….…..178
Text 2. Classical Theories…………….....................................................................180
Text 3. The Meaning of Management………….......................................................184
Text 4. The Process of Management……………….................................................191
Text 5. Management Activities……………….........................................................195
Text 6. Classical Theories…………….....................................................................197
Text 7. Fayol’s Principles of Management………................................................…201
Text 8. F.W.Taylor and Scientific Management………….......................................205
Text 9. The Principles of Scientific Management………….................................…208
Text 10. Scientific Management after Taylor……………........................................214
Texts for Additional Reading (for students’ independent work)
Text 1. Comments on the Scientific Management School………............................220
Text 2. L.F.Urwick…………....................................................................................221
Text 3. E.F.L.Brech...................................................................................................224
Text 4. Max Weber and the Idea of Bureaucracy…………......................................225
Text 5. Bureaucracy……………...............................................................................227
Text 6. Bureaucracy and Weber…………................................................................228
Questions for discussion to texts 1-6…………..................................................…...230
Part II.
ReferEnce materiAl
Nobel Prize Winners................................................................................................232
Money in our everyday life
Quotations................................................................................................................241
Poetry……………...................................................................................................254
Part III.
KEYS
Unit 1……………...............................................................................................…..259
Unit 2………………............................................................................................….262
Unit 3………………….............................................................................................265
Unit 4………………….............................................................................................268
Unit 5……………………...................................................................................…..271
Unit 6…………………........................................................................................….274
Unit 7………………….......................................................................................…..277
Unit 8………………….............................................................................................280
Unit 9………………............................................................................................….284
Unit 10………………...............................................................................................286
Unit 11………………….......................................................................................…288
Unit 12…………………….......................................................................................292
Keys to the texts for individual reading…………………....294
References………………………………………………………………………….296