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The following articles and readings are related to the topics covered in the Course Schedule

Chapter/Topic Articles Articles Articles
   1  Introduction      
   2  Economics 09-15 Behavioralists Show How to Improve Government Operations    
   3  Scarcity and Choice      
   4  Demand and Supply       
   5  Consumer Choice      
   6  Elasticity 02-13 Metropolitan Opera Cuts Ticket Prices    
 21  International Trade 01-05 Trade Gains 10-07 Globalization 01-12 U. S. Mfg and Exports
  01-12 Mfg in US compared to China 09-13 Increase in Demand for U. S. Textile Workers

09-16 How Much Do We Really Know About Global Trade’s Impacts?

  09-16 Who Favors Free Trade Agreements? 09-16 More Jobs, More Wealth, but Not for Everyone . . . 12-16 Don’t Worry About the Trade Deficit
22   US Economic Growth/Leadership Notes 09-16 Americans Aren't Being Squeezed Out of Jobs . . .  
   7  Production, Inputs, Costs      
   8  Outputs, Prices, Profits 08-07 Wage Increases in China    
 20  Poverty, Inequality, Discrimination 08-07 Industrial Revolution and Income Gaps 08-07 Regional Income Disparity  
  01-07 Income, Wealth, Happiness 12-06 Worldwide Wealth Inequality 12-11 Income Inequality and Growth
  04-12 Welfare Rolls and Recession 04-13 Danes Rethink Welfare State 09-13 Mismeasure of Poverty
  02-15 Public Policy for Middle Class    
 17  Taxation 10-07 Consumption Tax 10-07 Taxes and GDP  
       
 10  Perfect Competition      
 11  Monopoly      
 12  Oligopoly      
 12  Monopolistic Competition 06-07 Retail Price Maintenance Voided 09-07 Industries Seek Regulation 10-17 There May be Too Many Restaurants
 13  Limiting Market Power 01-07 Low Prices and Price Guarantees 09-11 AT&T Antitrust Case 10-12 Patents as a Sword
  01-13 Europe Likely to be Harder on Google 07-13 Apple and E-Books Antitrust Case 07-13 E-Book Pricing Conspiracy Effects
 16  Externalities      
 19  Labor      
 15; 20  Shortcomings of Free Markets 03-11 U. S. Macroeconomic Problems and Recommendations    
 14  Free Markets: Price System       

Web sites:

20 Income; Poverty:  US Income Distribution by Quintiles, Gini Coefficients and Related Characteristics

International Trade: U. S. Imports and Exports http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/current_press_release/ft900.pdf

Additional Notes:  Game Theory 

22 US Economic Leadership: Notes

 

January 17, 2019

 

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