Study Says Insurers Should Pay for Vaccinations [NYT Aug 4, 2003]

    Race/class conflict [Los Angeles Bus Riders Union]

    The Civilizing Effect of Market Economics

PowerPoint presentation related to above article. "In Search of Homo economicus" [click your way through] 

   Secret agents (buzz marketing)  

    Buzz marketing 

    Mark-up pricing in the restaurant business

    How corporations changed America

    Trust and the market system

    Externalities (hog waste)

    The public costs of private corporations . . . [data here]

    Do RAs need unions?  

    Oligopolies, including text book industry      

Government and the economy 

    International trade protests

    Impact of globalization

    WTO q&a  

Measurement 

    Unemployment rate  

        Unemployment insurance fails the unemployed [3/02]

    Consumer price index  

    Gross domestic product -- 2Q GDP  

    Inequality

    GDP: Mother of All Numbers (from Business Week)

    What is the highest grossing film of all time?

    What are the best films of all time?

Macroeconomic theory 

   Keynes & deficits 

   Says Law and the current recession

    Four Hard-to-Predict Factors that will Shape the Economy [WSJ 4/4/02]

    

Policy, finance and money 

    Fiscal policy: Government needs to prime the pump [NYT 4/18/02]     

    Money -- flooz  (internet money)

    Money -- patacones (Argentina)

    Money -- coca paste  (Columbia)

FUNDAMENTALS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

    Subsistence (1901 vs. 2001)

   Charleston 5 (race, class, unions) [In These Times]

        Charleston 5 [The Nation]

    Working more hours

    Social security