Link: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/americans-appear-ready-go-shopping-again
Summary: Consumer reports conclude Americans are ready to spend again. The market is on the rise, especially as the recession fades.
Original Air Date: September 25, 2014
Length: 1 minute 28 seconds
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Link: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/your-money/get-rich-giving-lattes-not-so-fast
Summary: There’s a theory in the personal finance industry known as the Latte Factor, which says give up the coffee drink and invest the money instead, and you’ll have enough to retire on. However, that theory doesn’t factor into the equation inflation and taxes, and is now being proven wrong.
Original Air Date: October 10, 2014
Length: 2 minutes 19 seconds
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/12/31/258687278/a-bet-five-metals-and-the-future-of-the-planet
Summary: A bet between a biologist and an economist over population growth. This Planet Money Podcast reports on a wager between biologist Paul Ehrlich and economist Julian Simon on the affect of population boom to our environment.
Original Air Date: January 2, 2014
Length: 7 minutes
Link: http://www.npr.org/2012/06/04/154287476/honest-truth-about-why-we-lie-cheat-and-steal
Summary: Planet Money interviews Dan Ariely, professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, about his book The Honest Truth About Dishonesty. Ariely notes that most individuals do not conduct their daily affairs on strict cost-benefit analysis but rather tend to cheat, lie, and steal as long as they don’t cross a certain moral threshold.
Original Air Date: June 4, 2012
Length: 8 min
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/25/195641030/episode-468-kid-rock-vs-the-scalpers
Summary:The Planet Money team interview Kid Rock on his strategies to combat after-market sales of concert tickets by scalpers. Includes a discussion of changes in the concert industry, firm strategies to price differentiate and consumer views on such strategies.
Length: 19:05 min
Original air date: June 27, 2013
Chapter 1. Ten Principles of Economics
Chapter 2. Thinking Like an Economist
Chapter 3. Interdependence and the Gains from Trade
Chapter 4. The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
Chapter 5. Elasticity and Its Application
Chapter 6. Supply, Demand, and Government Policies
Chapter 7. Consumers, Producers and the Efficiency of Markets
Chapter 8. Application: The Costs of Taxation
Chapter 9. Application: International Trade
Chapter 10. Externalities
Why Taxpayers Pay for Farmers’ Insurance (subsidies)
Chapter 11. Public Goods and Common Resources
Chapter 12. The Design of the Tax System
Chapter 13. The Costs of Production
Chapter 14. Firms in Competitive Markets
Chapter 15. Monopoly
Chapter 16. Oligopoly
Chapter 17. Monopolistic Competition
Chapter 18. The Markets for the Factors of Production
Chapter 19. Earnings and Discrimination
Freakonomics goes to College Part I and Part II
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
Chapter 24. Production and Growth
Chapter 25. Saving, Investment, and the Financial System
Chapter 26. Unemployment and Its Natural Rate
Chapter 27. The Monetary System
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
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
Chapter 1. Art and Science of Economy Analysis
Chapter 2. Economic Tools and Economic Systems
Chapter 3. Economic Decision Makers
Chapter 4. Demand, Supply, and Markets
Chapter 5. Elasticity of Demand and Supply
Chapter 6. Consumer Choice and Demand
Chapter 7. Production and Cost in the Firm
Chapter 8. Perfect Competition
Chapter 9. Monopoly
Chapter 10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
Chapter 11. Resource Markets
Chapter 12. Labor Markets and Labor Unions
Chapter 13. Capital, Interest, and Corporate Finance (interest rates, discounting, securities exchanges, bonds)
Chapter 14. Transaction Costs, Imperfect Information, and Market Behavior
Chapter 15. Economic Regulation and Antitrust Policy
Chapter 16. Public Goods and Public Choice
Chapter 17. Externalities and the Environment
18. Income Distribution and Poverty
Chapter 19. International Trade
20. International Finance
Chapter 21. Economic Development
Chapter 1. What is Economics?
Allowance, Taxes and Potty Training (incentives)
Chapter 2. The Economic Problem
Chapter 3. Demand and Supply
Chapter 4. Elasticity
Chapter 5. Efficiency and Equity
Chapter 6. Government Actions in Markets
Cheating, Stealing and Quantitative Easing (black market for stolen bikes segment)
Chapter 7. Global Markets in Action
Chapter 8. Utility and Demand
Chapter 9. Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices
Chapter 10. Organizing Production
Chapter 11. Output and Costs
Chapter 12. Perfect Competition
Chapter 13. Monopoly
Chapter 14. Monopolistic Competition
Chapter 15. Oligopoly
Chapter 16. Public Choices and Public Goods
Chapter 17. Economics of the Environment
Chapter 18. Markets for Factors of Production
Putting a Price Tag on your Descendants (discounting)
Chapter 19. Economic Inequality
Chapter 20. Uncertainty and Information
Chapter 2 – thinking like an economist
Chapter 3 – interdependence and gains from trade
Chapter 4 – supply and demand
Chapter 5 – elasticity
Chapter 6 – government policies impact on market
Chapter 7 – market efficiency
Chapter 8 – taxation
Chapter 9 – international trade
Chapter 10 – externalities
Chapter 11 – public goods and common resources
Chapter 12 – design of tax system
Chapter 13 – costs of production
Chapter 14 – firms in competitive markets
Chapter 15 – Monopoly
Chapter 16 – Oligopoly
Chapter 17 – monopolistic competition
Chapter 18 – markets for factors of production
Chapter 19 – earnings and discrimination
Freakonomics goes to College Part I and Part II
Chapter 20 – income inequality and poverty
Chapter 21 – theory of consumer choice
Chapter 22 – frontiers of microeconomics
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