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Chapter 1. Ten Principles of Economics

• How do you decide who gets lungs (a situation where there is no market)

Chapter 2. Thinking Like an Economist

• The No-brainer Economic Platform

Chapter 3. Interdependence and the Gains from Trade

• Adam Smith, Mama’s Boy

• Economics for Medieval Chinese Peasants

Chapter 4. The Market Forces of Supply and Demand

• How Fear Turned a Surplus Into a Scarcity

• Do Sanctions Work (shortage)

Chapter 5. Elasticity and Its Application

• Moonshine Stimulus

• An Economist Gets Stoned

Chapter 6. Supply, Demand, and Government Policies

Chapter 7. Consumers, Producers and the Efficiency of Markets

• Why Economists Hate Gifts

• How Much is a Firefighter Worth

Chapter 8. Application: The Costs of Taxation

Chapter 9. Application: International Trade

• Revenge of the Tariffs

• A Meat Grinder for Fabric

• The Cotton Wars

Chapter 10. Externalities

• Why Taxpayers Pay for Farmers’ Insurance (subsidies)

• The Patent War

• A Former Crack Dealer on the Economics of Drugs

• The Case for Preschool

Chapter 11. Public Goods and Common Resources

• Parking is Hell

• Lighthouses, Autopsies and the Federal Budget

• Putting a Price Tag on your Descendents

Chapter 12. The Design of the Tax System

• The Surprisingly Entertaining History of the Income Tax

Chapter 13. The Costs of Production

• Katy Perry’s Perfect Year

• Manufacturing the Song of the Summer

Chapter 14. Firms in Competitive Markets

• Four in One

Chapter 15. Monopoly

• Can You Patent a Steak

• The Matzo Economy

Chapter 16. Oligopoly

• The Nasty Rotten Airline Business

• The Price of Things We Love

Chapter 17. Monopolistic Competition

• How To Make It In the Food Truck Business

Chapter 18. The Markets for the Factors of Production

Chapter 19. Earnings and Discrimination

• Freakonomics goes to College Part I and Part II

• What a 16th Century Guild Teaches Us About Competition

Chapter 20. The Distribution of Income

Chapter 21. The Theory of Consumer Choice

Chapter 22. Measuring A Nation’s Income

Chapter 23. Measuring the Cost of Living

• The Price of Lettuce in Brooklyn

Chapter 24. Production and Growth

• China’s Giant Pool of Money

Chapter 25. Saving, Investment, and the Financial System

Chapter 26. Unemployment and Its Natural Rate

Chapter 27. The Monetary System

• Where Dollar Bills Come From

Chapter 28. Money Growth and Inflation

• Excerpt from  We Found a Socialist (discussion of inflation, deflation, role of fed in context of possible deflation in U.S. economy in 2010 0:00 – 3:26)

Chapter 29. Open-Economy Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts

• Did China’s Central Bank Take Your Job

Chapter 30. A Macroeconomic Theory of the Open Economy

Chapter 31. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply

Chapter 32. The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand

Chapter 33. The Short-Run Tradeoff between Inflation and Unemployment

Chapter 34. Five Debates over Macroeconomic Policy

• When the U.S. Paid Off the Entire National Debt