Lecture 1. Introduction to macro- and microeconomics --
Lecture 2. The business cycle and the warring schools of macroeconomics --
Lecture 3. Fiscal policy and budget deficits, the good, bad, and ugly --
Lecture 4. Monetary policy, it's all about money, credit, and banking --
Lecture 5. Unemployment and inflation, enter the dragons --
Lecture 6. International trade and protectionism, where did our jobs go? --
Lecture 7. The international monetary system, exchange rates, and trade deficits --
Lecture 8. Supply, demand, and equilibrium, how prices are set in our markets --
Lecture 9. Understanding consumer behavior, the essential elements --
Lecture 10. Producer behavior and an introduction to perfect competition --
Lecture 11. Market structure, conduct, and performance, why monopolists do what they do --
Lecture 12. Why the government intervenes in our markets and lives, the economist's critique --
Lecture 13. Government taxation from the cradle to the grave, the big issues --
Lecture 14. Land, labor, and capital, how our rents, wages, and interest rates are set.
