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ECONOMICS U$A

Volume I

September 22, 2002

America's Embattled Economy Investigated

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?

A companion website to the television series and telecourse materials

Overview

Economics U$A is a comprehensive 28 part introductory course in micro and macro-economics designed for college and high school classrooms. The series takes a major step tyoward improving the economic literacy of our citizens.

Colorful footage documents economic events, past and present, as they unfold. Economic concepts come to life through the journalistic coverage of such stories as the establishment of the Federal Reserve, the breakup of AT & T, the anti-trust suit against the computer giant, Microsoft and the deregulation of the American airline industry. Interviews with prominent economists, public officials, labor organizers and leaders of business and industry, many of whom were key participants in these events, deepen the viewers' understandings. Among these are Herbert Stein, Alfred Kahn, John Kenneth Galbraith, Milton Friedman, Charles Schultz, Walter Heller, William Brock, David Boies, Alice Rivlin, to name but a few.

Economics U$A was developed by leading economists from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in partnership with the Educational Film Center, an award winning producer of high quality broadcast television programming and instructional videos.

Economics U$A has been funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project and is being distributed on PBS, the Annenberg/CPB Satellite Channel and is available on VHS cassette and CD-ROM. Colleges can purchase, rent or obtain a license to tape off the air any program they wish to use. The series is complimented by a textbook, a teachers and faculty guide.

Print Availability

The textbook and study guide was prepared for Economics USA by W.W.Norton & Company, Inc.

Audiocassette Transcript Availability

A complete set, consisting of 28 half hour audiocassettes is available through the Annenberg/CPB Project. For a full transcript of each cassette please download the pdf file which can be found on each program page. For further information on Videocassette and DVD availability contact Annenberg/CPB at 1-800-LEARNER
ECONOMICS U$A is but one series in an entire catalog of college level telecourses and training programs distributed by the Annenberg/CPB Project. For further information on the purchase, rental or licensing of this or any other series in the catalog contact the Annenberg/CPB Project at:

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ECONOMICS U$A is sponsored in part by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education.

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