I. Introduction to Economics
Chapter 1: The economist’s view of the world
Lesson 1: Scarcity: unlimited wants vs. limited resources
Lesson 2: Choice-making: opportunity costs and trade-offs
Lesson 3: The questions economists ask
Chapter 2: The nature and types of ideal economic systems
Lesson 4: Traditional systems
Lesson 5: Command systems
Lesson 6: Market systems
Chapter 3: An overview of the American economy
Lesson 7: Tradition, command, and market elements
Lesson 8: Specialization, division and labor, and interdependence
Lesson 9: The role of economic institutions
II. Microeconomics
Chapter 4: Understanding a market economy
Lesson 10: Consumption-demand
I. How is my sense reflected in my choices?
Chapter 1: What choices do I make?
Lesson 1: What do I want and what can I have?
Lesson 2: How do I decide when I want conflicting things?
Lesson 3: How do I see the choice?
Chapter 2: What choices can I make?
Lesson 4: How does tradition eliminate my choices?
Lesson 5: How do (I let) others make choices for me?
Lesson 6: What choices do I make freely?
Chapter 3: What factors influence my choices?
Lesson 7: How free are my choices?
Lesson 8: How are my choices shaped by others’ choices?
Lesson 9: How are my choices shaped by (my) past experiences?
II. How does my group identity shape my choices?
Chapter 4: How can I survive alone?
Lesson 10: What are my needs and how can I satisfy them?
Lesson 11: Production-supply
Lesson 12: Equilibrium-price
Chapter 5: Competition and market structure
Lesson 13: Pure competition
Lesson 14: Monopoly and imperfect markets
Lesson 15: Factor markets
Chapter 6: “Market Failures”
Lesson 16: Information costs, resource immobility, and externalities
Lesson 17: Discrimination
Lesson 18: Equity and efficiency
Chapter 7: Government intervention and regulation
Lesson 19: Enforcing the “rules of the game”
Lesson 20: Regulations and controls
Lesson 21: Production of “public goods”
Chapter 8: Income distribution and government redistribution
Lesson 22: Sources of income
Lesson 23: Government tax and transfer policy
Lesson 24: Nongovernmental-modifications
Lesson 11: How do others’ needs influence my actions?
Lesson 12: How can I coordinate my needs with those of others?
Chapter 5: How is my identity shaped by my group memberships?
Lesson 13: How does working for the group promote my self-interest?
Lesson 14: What power do we get from group membership?
Lesson 15: How do our groups define ourselves?
Chapter 6: How does our group confine us?
Lesson 16: What limits does the group impose on its members?
Lesson 17: What are members’ obligations to the group?
Lesson 18: How am I different from members of my group?
Chapter 7: How can I become a member of society?
Lesson 19: How is the society different from the group?
Lesson 20: How can society free me from domination by family and peers?
Lesson 21: What choices (do I let) (does) my society make for me?
Chapter 8: How do I choose when my loyalty to a group conflicts with my loyalty to society?
Lesson 22: How does my group fit into the society?
Lesson 23: How are my loyalties divided between my group and society?
Lesson 24: What do I lose or gain by seeing myself as a member of society?
III. Macroeconomics
Chapter 9: National Income Accounting
Lesson 25: Gross national product
Lesson 26: Adjusting GNP for price and population changes
Lesson 27: What GNP does not include
Chapter 10: Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
Lesson 28: Explaining total economic performance
Lesson 29: Economic goals: full employment and stable prices
Lesson 30: Economic problems, unemployment and inflation
Chapter 11: Money and Monetary Policy
Lesson 31: The forms and functions of money in the U.S.
Lesson 32: How money expands and contracts
Lesson 33: The federal reserve system and monetary policy
Chapter 12: Fiscal Policy
Lesson 34: The tools of fiscal policy
Lesson 35: The multiplier effect and the acceleration principle
Lesson 36: The national debt
III. Ideology
Chapter 9: How do I judge myself?
Lesson 25: By what standards do I measure myself?
Lesson 26: How do I adjust my standards?
Lesson 27: What do I do when my standards are inadequate?
Chapter 10: How does society judge me?
Lesson 28: How does society define success and failure?
Lesson 29: How does society’s standards shape my standards?
Lesson 30: What happens when society’s goals conflict with my needs or standards?
Chapter 11: How do society’s standards relate to its actions?
Lesson 31: How do a society’s institutions reflect its standards?
Lesson 32: How do society’s institutions influence its standards?
Lesson 33: How do people judge their society’s actions?
Lesson 34: How do my standards influence my actions?
Lesson 35: How do my actions influence my standards?
Lesson 36: How do I judge my actions?
IV. Change
Chapter 13: Economic Growth
Lesson 37: Increased population, increased investment, and increased productivity
Lesson 38: Advantages and disadvantages of economic growth
Lesson 39: Public policy and economic growth
Chapter 14: The Public Sector
Lesson 40: Expenditures and taxes
Lesson 41: Progressive, proportional, and regressive taxes
Lesson 42: Criteria for an equitable tax system
Chapter 15: The World Economy
Lesson 43: Comparative advantage and gains from trade
Lesson 44: Trade restrictions their effects
Lesson 45: The multinational corporation and the future of the world economy
Chapter 16: Current Public Policy problems of the American Economy
Lesson 46: Meeting energy requirements
Lesson 47: Making cities livable
Lesson 48: Preserving the environment
IV. How do I see my changing self in a changing world?
Chapter 13: How am I growing?
Lesson 37: How am I becoming increasingly independent, invested in others, and capable?
Lesson 38: What are the advantages and costs of this psychological growth?
Lesson 39: How can I manage the conflicts generated by this growth?
Chapter 14: How am I developing from society’s point of view?
Lesson 40: What do I give and take from society?
Lesson 41: What different expectations does society have for me?
Lesson 42: What can society legitimately expect from me?
Chapter 15: What opportunities exist for me in the world?
Lesson 43: How can I choose a lifestyle that lets me do what I do best?
Lesson 44: What limits are imposed on me when I choose this lifestyle?
Lesson 45: What new possibilities might the future bring?
Chapter 16: How do I as a growing individual relate to a changing world?
Lesson 46: How can I efficiently use (my) resource in order to contribute to society?
Lesson 47: How can I find or create a community which supports who I want to be?
Lesson 48: How do I preserve what is valuable as things change?