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Issues in Economics Today

Robert Guell, Indiana State University

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: Interest Rates and Present Value
5: Production and Costs
6: Perfect Competition and Monopoly
7: Macroeconomic Vocabulary
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: Drugs and Prostitution
18: Tobacco and Alcohol
19: Environment

Part 4: Health Issues
20: Health Care
21: Medicare
22: Prescription Drugs

Part 5: Governmental Solutions to Societal Problems
23: Crime
24: Education
25: Poverty and Welfare
26: Social Security

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: Anti-Trust
35: Oil Prices
36: Sports
37: The Stock Market
38: Unions
39: Medicaid
40: Taxing the Return on Capital
41: Head Start
42: Children

Answers to 'Quiz Yourself' Questions
Glossary

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