本书是为高等院校英语专业年级学生编写的经济专业英语教科书。

本书的编写宗旨是力求将经济知识和专业英语的学习与高年级英语学习融为一体，既培养和提高学生阅读英语原著和报刊的能力，又向学生提供广泛的经济专业知识及有关的英语知识。全书共有16课，以英语语言难易程序为序；课文选题广泛，涉及经济诸多方面，均选自近年来英美等国的经济专业书刊；课文注释中用英语解释有关经济专业概念和背景知识；课文练习精练实用。本书做为精读教材，每课1周6课时，可供1学期使用。

Lesson 1 Motives for Direct Foreign Investment

Lesson 2 Are Commodities Back?

Lesson 3 Annual Report on American Economy

Lesson 4 Empowerment That Pays Off

Lesson 5 Exit the Middleman

Lesson 6 Principles of Insurance

Lesson 7 After a Bullish'93,More in'94?

Lesson 8 Don't Stop Now

Lesson 9 Masters of the Single Market

Lesson 10 Newer Theories of International Trade

Lesson 11 Payment Terms in International Trade

Lesson 12 Chaos More Likely than Harmony

Lesson 13 International Technology Transfer

Lesson 14 Japan's Trade Policy

Lesson 15 The Eurocurrency Market

Lesson 16 The City in the World Economy

Supplementary Reading 1

Supplementary Reading 2

Gross domestic product is the total value of all the final products and services produced within the territory of a country both by home residents and by foreign residents.