Part I.  Key Principles of Economics

Opportunity Cost:  What are the available choices?
PPF

Marginal Analysis:  Size of the Pie vs. Pie Slice
Efficiency

Supply and Demand:  Price as Allocating Mechanism

The Gross Domestic Product

Part II.  Current Controversies

Microsoft: Is the company too big?
Monopoly and Market Power

Legalizing Marijuana
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The Stock Market:  Is it out of control?

Free Trade and the WTO

Presidential Candidates' Economic Policies
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Technology and Growth

Pollution and the Environment

Part III.  The Macroeconomy

Unemployment

Spending and the Multiplier

Inflation: Who gets hurt?

Money:  Why are Banks important?

Economic Policy and the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff

Part IV.  Government Redistribution

Inequality and Poverty: Have the rich gotten richer?

Welfare Reform

Social Security: Will there be anything left?

Generational Equity
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