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1. Resources and Scarcity: What Is Economics All About?
2. Markets and Prices: Do They Meet Our Needs?
3. U.S. Economic Growth: What Is the Gross National Product?
4. Booms and Busts: What Causes the Business Cycle?
5. John Maynard Keynes: What Did We learn from the Great Depression?
6. Fiscal Policy: Can We Control the Economy?
7. Inflation: How Did the Spiral Begin?
8. The Banking System: Why Must It Be Protected?
9. The Federal Reserve: Does Money Matter?
10. Stagflation: Why Couldn't We Beat It?
11. Productivity: Can We Get More For Less?
12. Federal Deficits: Can We Live With Them?
13. Monetary Policy: How Well Does It Work?
14. Stabilization Policy: Are We Still In Control?
15. The Firm: How Can We Keep Costs Down?
16. Supply and Demand: What Sets the Price?
17. Perfect Competition & Inelastic Demand: Can the Farmer Make a Profit?
18. Economics Efficiency: What Price Controls?
19. Monopoly: Who's In Control?
20. Oligopoly: Whatever Happened to Price Competition?
21. Pollution: How Much Is a Clean Environment Worth?
22. Labor & Management: How do They Come to Terms?
23. Profits and Interest: Where Is the Best Return?
24. Reducing Poverty: What Have We Done?
25. Economic Growth: Can We Keep Up the Pace?
26. Public Goods and Responsibilities? How Far Should We Go?
27. International Trade: For Whose Benefit?
28. Exchange Rates: What in the World Is a Dollar Worth?
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