The Penguin Dictionary of Economics is addressed to both the student and the general reader who wants to be able to follow economic discussions in the press and elsewhere, or whose daily work demands some familiarity with economic terms. It aims to provide a comprehensive companion to support other reading in a discipline which employs remarkably similar terminology in Britain and the United States.

          Prepared by three practising economists, it contains over 1,600 entries on economic terms and theory, the history of economics, and individual economists where they have made a definalbe contribution to contemporary economic thought. An elaborate system of cross-referencing makes the dictionary easy to use and extremely informative.