ECONOMICS U$A , Part 1: Macroeconomics

PRODUCER: Educational Film Center, in cooperation with Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates and INTELECOM From Annenberg/CPB

PRODUCTION COMPLETED: 1985

FIRST PBS RELEASE: Summer 1986

DISCIPLINE: Macroeconomics

LESSONS/PROGRAMS: 14 half-hour programs

CAPTIONING: closed captioned

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

Newly updated to bring issues covered in the series up to the 21st Century, Economics U$A is a comprehensive telecourse in macroeconomics and microeconomics designed to address the sharply increasing demand for quality college economics courses in this critical field of study. The series is an absorbing documentary examination of major historic and contemporary events that have shaped 20th century American economics. Through the use of interviews, commentary and analysis, the series establishes a clear relationship between abstract economic principles and concrete human experience.

Topics include resources and scarcity, markets and prices, booms and busts, fiscal policy, inflation, supply and demand, profits and interests, exchange rates, and more.

The course programs are hosted by former CBS and ABC network correspondent David Schoumacher and Richard T. Gill, former Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Economics U$A can be offered as either a one-semester survey course in economic principles or, with the addition of the audiocassettes, as a two-semester macro- and microeconomics course sequence.

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