Principles of economics: business, banking, finance, and your everyday life

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.