TY - BOOK AU - Koch, A. Robert TI - Economic principles: growth and environment SN - 087055509X AV - HB 171.5 .K63 1986 PY - 1986/// CY - Westport, Connecticut PB - AVI Pub. Co. KW - ECONOMIC N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Economics: Growth and Development -- 1. An Introduction -- 2. Macroeconomics and Growth -- 3. The Role of Agriculture and Growth -- 4. Different Economic Systems -- Part II. The Market-Price Making -- 5. Demand -- 6. Supply -- Part III. Land -- 7. The Land Resource -- 8. Land as Space and Property N2 - Economics is an exciting science. Practitioners recognize its predictive models and limitations-it is a method, not a doctrine, a way of addressing an issue, not an end all or be all to the issue. Economics has no set answers but it does provide a framework for thinking that unlocks alternatives. The student who "thinks economically" will think in terms of economic models, and will evaluate each of the variables in the model and the alternative impact of each variable on the potential outcome ER -