An examination of the fundamental aspects of both the economic concept and functioning entity of markets. Markets are discussed in terms of types, including money and labour markets, and in terms of the European Community, its present internal and external effects and anticipated changes in 1992.

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What is a market?; supply and demand; outside forces; markets in secondhand goods; markets in new goods; marketing; markets in services; competition and monopoly; the European community; 1992; internal effects of 1992; the EC and the wider world; markets in the sky; money markets; labour markets; market research.