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ISBN 10: 1598033808
ISBN 13: 9781598033809
Author: Robert Whaples

Gross domestic product. Health insurance. Soaring energy prices. Major economic issues dominate today’s news, but how do these issues impact the average citizen? This primer in 21st-century economics for the non-economist surveys today’s most urgent economic issues that affect both global events and our everyday lives. You’ll learn what economics has to say about making the decisions – big or small – that affect our daily lives: What factors come into play when you’re deciding whether to buy this car or that one, or even commute by bus? Mow the lawn or take a nap? Grill a burger with a bubbling slice of cheese or eat a simple salad? And you’ll see how this same kind of analysis applies to the major issues of public policy, where the needs and wants of a nation and its people – whether financial security, safety from terrorism, or even an available kidney for someone desperately waiting on a transplant list – involve tradeoffs, which are sometimes obvious and sometimes not. Whether dealing with the traditional sorts of topics most of us are used to seeing in an economics course – Social Security, inflation, unemployment, immigration, taxation, and the like – or issues perhaps surprising, such as gambling, major sports franchises, and even overeating, these 36 lectures offer a steady flow of insights about public policy and the American economy. By showing the full range of economic factors at work, this course can help you become an even more insightful judge of policy recommendations and of the leaders and policy makers who advocate them. And you may well learn to supplement your own analyses as you make the real-life economic choices each of us faces every day, becoming an even wiser consumer and manager of your own economic future.

Modern economic issues 1st Table of contents:

Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. The economic approach to public policy
Lecture 2. Assessing the American economy
Lecture 3. Economists’ views of the future
Lecture 4. Productivity and productivity growth
Lecture 5. Inflation
Lecture 6. Unemployment —
Disc 2. Lecture 7. Economic inequality
Lecture 8. International trade and outsourcing
Lecture 9. Trade imbalances and saving
Lecture 10. Government budget deficits
Lecture 11. Taxes and the Income Tax Code
Lecture 12. Social Security. Part 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. An aging population and the birth dearth
Lecture 14. Health care
Lecture 15. Energy
Lecture 16. Pollution
Lecture 17. Global climate change
Lecture 18. Low wages and the minimum wage —
Disc 4. Lecture 19. Poverty and families
Lecture 20. Pay gaps by sex and race
Lecture 21. Immigration
Lecture 22. Labor unions
Lecture 23. Underperforming schools
Lecture 24. The high cost of higher education. Part 3. Discs 5. Lecture 25. Wal-Mart
Lecture 26. Corporate “greed,” fraud, and mismanagement
Lecture 27. Conspicuous consumption
Lecture 28. Mail delivery
Lecture 29. Organ shortages
Lecture 30. Baseball
Lecture 31. Terrorism
Lecture 32. Helping poor countries
Lecture 33. Urban sprawl
Lecture 34. Gambling
Lecture 35. Overeating
Lecture 36. Concluding thoughts.

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