(36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course No. 5610 Taught by Robert Whaples Wake Forest University Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Course Lecture Titles

• 1. What Economists Know and Don’t Know About Economic Policy
• 2. Economy Up or Down? How to Tell
• 3. Economists’ Views of the Future
• 4. Productivity and Productivity Growth
• 5. Inflation—Why the Measure Matters
• 6. Unemployment—How the U.S. Differs from Europe
• 7. Economic Inequality
• 8. The Fallacy of Trade Barriers
• 9. Trade Imbalances and Saving
• 10. Budget Deficits—Historical and Future Perspectives
• 11. Taxes and the Income Tax Code
• 12. Rx for Social Security
• 13. Mitigating the Economic Concerns of an Aging Population
• 14. Financing World Class Health Care
• 15. Supply, Demand, and the Future of Oil
• 16. Pollution—Tax or Trade?
• 17. Global Climate Change—Costs and Benefits
• 18. Minimum Wages and Poverty Rate
• 19. It Pays to Be Married
• 20. Pay Gaps by Sex and Race
• 21. Economic Impact of Immigration
• 22. Labor Unions—Contemporary Role in the U.S. Economy
• 23. Productivity Trends in Schools
• 24. Higher Education: Supply and Demand
• 25. Wal-Mart and Productivity Growth
• 26. Corporate Governance in a Successful Economy
• 27. Zero-Sum Game of Conspicuous Consumption
• 28. Economic Upside of Postal Reforms
• 29. Standard Market Practices—Can They Be Applied Everywhere?
• 30. Economics of the Baseball Industry
• 31. Examining Economic Response to Terrorism
• 32. Helping Poor Countries
• 33. Economic Upsides and Downsides of Urban Sprawl
• 34. Economic Costs and Benefits of Gambling
• 35. Economists’ View of Overeating
• 36. American Economy in the 21st Century