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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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