Economics

An Introduction to Economics. Part I: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY. 1. What Economics Is About. Appendix A: Working with Diagrams. Appendix B: Should You Major in Economics? 2. Production Possibilities Frontier Framework. 3. Supply and Demand: Theory. 4. Prices: Free, Controlled, and Relative. 5. Supply, Demand, and Price: Applications. Macroeconomics. Part II: MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS. 6. Macroeconomic Measurements, Part I: Prices and Unemployment. 7. Macroeconomic Measurements, Part II: GDP and Real GDP. Part III: MACROECONOMIC STABILITY, INSTABILITY, AND FISCAL POLICY. 8. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply. 9. Classical Macroeconomics and the Self-Regulating Economy. 10. Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Instability: A Critique of the Self-Regulating Economy. 11. Fiscal Policy and the Federal Budget. Part IV: MONEY, THE ECONOMY, AND MONETARY POLICY. 12. Money, Banking and the Financial System. 13. The Federal Reserve System. 14. Money and the Economy. 15. Monetary Policy. Appendix C: Bond Prices and Interest Rates. Part V: EXPECTATIONS AND GROWTH. 16. Expectations Theory and the Economy. 17. Economic Growth: Resources, Technology, Ideas, and Institutions. Part VI: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION AND CRONY CAPITALISM 18. Creative Destruction and Crony Capitalism: Two Forces on the Economic Landscape Today Microeconomics Part VII: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS. 19. Elasticity. 20. Consumer Choice: Maximizing Utility and Behavioral Economics. Appendix D: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curve Analysis. 21. Production and Costs. Part VIII: PRODUCT MARKETS AND POLICIES. 22. Perfect Competition. 23. Monopoly. 24. Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Game Theory. 25. Government and Product Markets: Antitrust and Regulation. Part IX: FACTOR MARKETS AND RELATED ISSUES. 26. Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market. 27. Wages, Unions, and Labor. 28. The Distribution of Income and Poverty. 29. Interest, Rent, and Profit. Part X: HEALTH ECONOMICS 30. Health Economics: Experiments, Disparities, and Prices Part XI: MARKET FAILURE, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND SPECIAL-INTEREST-GROUP POLITICS. 31. Market Failure: Externalities, Public Goods, and Asymmetric Information. 32. Public Choice and Special-Interest-Group Politics. Part XII: ECONOMIC THEORIES AND RESEARCH 33. New Frontiers in Economic Research: Causal Inference and Machine Learning International Economics Part XIII: INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE 34. International Trade. 35. International Finance.