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Principles of economics, business, banking, finance, and your everyday life, Peter Navarro

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Principles of economics

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Peter Navarro

The Modern scholar

business, banking, finance, and your everyday life

This course introduces both macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macroeconomics deals with the interaction of the individual or corporate body with the economic environment, while microeconomics examines the internal budgeting and spending projections of an individual, family, or corporate body

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

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