Description: Preface Issues Chapter Grid Suggested Issues for Themed Courses I. Theory Chapters 1: Economics: The Study of Opportunity Cost 2: Supply and Demand 3: Elasticity, Consumer Surplus, and Producer Surplus 4: Production and Costs 5: Perfect Competition and Monopoly 6: Macroeconomic Vocabulary 7: Interest Rates and Present Value 8: Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand II. Issue Chapters Part 1: Macroeconomic Issues 9: Federal Spending 10: Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt 11: Fiscal Policy 12: Monetary Policy 13: Overstatement of the Cost of Living by the CPI Part 2: International Issues 14: International Trade 15: International Monetary Fund 16: NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO Part 3: Externalities and Market Failure 17: Tobacco, Alcohol, Illegal Drugs, and Prostitution 18: Environment Part 4: Health Issues 19: Health Care 20: Government Provision of Health Insurance 21: The Economics of Prescription Drugs Part 5: Governmental Solutions to Societal Problems 22: The Economics of Crime 23: Education 24: Poverty and Welfare 25: Social Security 26: Head Start Part 6: Discrimination Issues 27: Race and Affirmative Action 28: Gender Part 7: Price Control Issues 29: Farm Policy 30: Minimum Wage 31: Rent Control 32: Ticket Brokers and Scalping Part 8: Miscellaneous Markets 33: Personal Income Taxes 34: Taxing the Return on Capital 35: Anti-Trust 36: Energy Prices 37: If We Build It Will They Come? and Other Sports Questions 38: The Stock Market and Crashes 39: Unions 40: The Cost of War 41: The Economics of Terrorism Glossary (On the Website) Children What Happened to Enron and Why It Matters

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