Wetherly and Otter: The Business Environment
Chapter 02
Sloman, J. (2004) The Economic Environment of Business
(Harlow: Pearson). This text is a concise introduction to the
economic principles that underpin business activity.
Mulhearn, C., Vane, H., and Eden, J. (2001) Economics for
Business (Basingstoke: Palgrave). Another clear and
accessible introductory economics text which explicitly
relates economics to the business context and is written by
the authors of Chapter 6.
Heilbronner, R. and Milberg, W. (2001) The Making of
Economic Society (Harlow: Pearson). A very good
explanation of the development of and perspectives applied
to modern economic systems.


