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"Explore economic history, theory, and practice through case studies and interviews with Nobel-prize winning and major economists. The series covering macro, micro, and international economics feat...
"Explore economic history, theory, and practice through case studies and interviews with Nobel-prize winning and major economists. The series covering macro, micro, and international economics features Milton Friedman, Paul Samuelson, John Kenneth Galbraith, Alice Rivlin, and Ben Bernanke, among others. Major economic events, including the 2008 banking crisis and technology's influence on the economy, connect economic theory to the headlines. The full complement of material includes audio interviews and a coordinated Web site"--Publisher information.
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- Creator
- [a cooperative project of Educational Film Center, Wharton Economic Forecasting Associates, Inc. ; producers, Frank Nesbitt ... and others ; writers, Frank Nesbitt .. and others ; directors, Frank Nesbitt ... and others].
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Twenty-first century edition
- S. Burlington, Vt. : Annenberg Media, 2011
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 4 DVD-videos (approximately 840 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- ISBNs
- 1576808955, 9781576808955, 1576808521
- OCLC
- ocn768912010
- Credits
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- Correspondent: David Schoumacher ; economist, Richard T. Gill
- "This DVD may only be played on stand alone DVD players and computer driven DVD drives in the US"--Container.
- The latest update of the the popular telecourse from Annenberg/CPB (originally premiering 1985). The 21st century edition version, released in 2011, has 28 new half-hour units "reconfigured in keeping with the teaching of modern economic principles, placing microeconomics first, followed by macroeconomics, and ending with two programs on global economics."
- Disc 1: Microeconomics: -- 1) Markets -- 2) The Firm -- 3) Supply and Demand -- 4) Perfect Competition/Inelastic Demand -- 5) Economic Efficiency -- 6) Monopoly -- 7) Oligopolies. -- Disc 2: Microeconomics: -- 8) Pollution and the Environment -- 9) Labor and Management -- 10) Profits and Interest -- 11) Reducing Poverty -- 12) Economic Growth -- 13) Public Goods and Responsibility. -- Disc 3: Macroeconomics: -- 14) Resources and Scarcity -- 15) GNP/GDP -- 16) Boom and Bust -- 17) The Great Depression and the Keynesian Revolution -- 18) Fiscal Policy -- 19) Inflation -- 20) The Banking System -- 21) The Federal Reserve. -- Disc 4: Macroeconomics: -- 22) Stagflation -- 23) Productivity -- 24) Federal Deficits -- 25) Monetary Policy -- 26) Stabilization Policy. International Economics: 27) International Trade -- 28) Exchange Rates