本书是“大学专业英语系列教材”中的经济类上册(共上、下两册)。按照新教学大纲的要求，本书适合于目前在校的大学二至三年级学生，是较为理想的英语加专业知识的“大学英语”教材。

本书兼顾英语语言的学习应用和经济学专业知识两个方面。学生在锻炼英语应用能力的同时，又可学到经济学方面的知识。

《经济学专业英语教程》(第二版)共分上、下两册。上册共设计14单元，每一单元包括主课文和副课文，系统介绍了经济学方面的基础知识和基本理论，具有较强的系统性和完整性，涵盖了微观经济学和宏观经济学的主要内容。

本书结构严谨，内容权威，知识通俗，是经济学专业本科生的参考教材、非经济学专业本科生的通识课教材。

Unit One

 Text: What Is Economics?

 Additional Text: The Economic Problem

 Text: Demand and Supply

 Additional Text: Supply and Demand and Odd Yellow Fruit

Unit Three

 Text: Price Elasticities of Demand and Supply

 Additional Text: How Landlords Respond to Rent Control: The Case of New York City

 Text: Cost of Production

 Additional Text: Economies and Diseconomies of Scale

Uint Four

 Text: Monopoly

  Additional Text: Perfect Competition

Nint Five

  Text: Oligopoly

  Additional Text: Monopolistic Competition

Unit Seven

  Text: Gross Domestic Product

  Additional Text: Two Alternative Approaches of MeasurinE GDP

  Text: Economic Growth

  Additional Text: Sources of Economic Development

Unit Nine

 Text: Inflation

  Additional Text: Unemployment

 Text: Money and Banking

  Additional Text: Facing the Impact of Foreign Banks

Unit Eleven

 Text: Foreign Exchange and Exchange Rate

 Additional Text: Exchange Rates and Trade

 Text: The Balance of Payments

 Additional Text: International Monetary Systems

 Text: Fiscal and Monetary Policy

 Additional Text: Lags in the Economy's Response to Monetary and Fiscal Policy

 Text: Role of Government in the Economy

 Additional Text: Government's Policies Toward Externalities

Appendix Ⅰ Answers to Exercises

Appendix Ⅱ Chinese Translation of the Texts