Pte. 1. Lec.1. Economizing, the economy, economics, and economic policy – Lec. 2. America's competion policy-Antitrust and mergers – Lec. 3. The great deregulation experiment-airlines and more – Lec. 4. Frontiers of deregulation-Telephones and electricity – Lec. 5. Financyng the health care industry – Lec. 6. Competitiveness in banks and savings and loans– Lec. 7. Re-inventing regulation – Lec. 8. Issues in environmental regulation – Lec. 9. Privatization-Steering, not rowing – Lec. 10. Medicine for unemployment-What works, what doesn't – Lec. 11. Are America's jobs decreasing in quality? - Lec. 12. The growing inequality of wages. Pte. 2. Lec. 13.The rise and fall (and rise?) of American Unions - Lec. 14. Discrimination against women and minorities in the labor market - Lec. 15. Taking the economics out of inmigration - Lec. 16. Welfare reform - Lec. 17. Raising wages for the working poor-Minimum wages, wages subsidies, and job training - Lec. 18. The race for global economic leadership - Lec. 19. Can we increase U.S. saving and investment? - Lec. 20. Reform of K-12 eEducation - Lec. 21. The delicacies of investing in infrastructure - Lec. 22. Technology, research and development - Lec. 23. Is the stock market headed for a crash? - Lec.24. The supply-side economics movement - Lec.25. Sectoral evolution-Farming, manufacturing, services, the information age? - Lec. 26. Federal budgets-Desicit, balance, or Surplus - Lec. 27. The shaky foundations of social security - Lec. 28. Defense spending and the uncertainties of the "Peace dividend" - Lec. 29. The government in health care-Medicare and medicaid - Lec. 30. The american tax burden in perspective - Lec. 31. Flat and flatter taxes - Lec. 32. Inflation- Why the measure matters - Lec. 33. The federal reserve and inflations fighting - Lec.34. Economic interpretations of federalim-What should states do? - Lec.35. Foreign trade-What's really at issue? - Lec. 36. Free trade vs. labor and environmental standards - Lec. 37. The trade deficit-What are the real issues? - Lec. 38. Can anything be done about internacional financial crashes? - Lec. 39. A single European Currency - Lec. 40. The economics of European Union - Lec. 41. From communism to a state of transition in Russia ans Eastern Europe - Lec. 42. Has Japan's economic miracle come and gone? - Lec. 43. Lessons from the East Asian (Rumpled) tigers - Lec. 44. China's economic surge - Lec. 45. India - Lec. 46. Market economics comes to Latin America - Lec. 47. Africa's Plight - Lec. 48. What economists know, and don't know, about economic policy.