Economics course outline
ii. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
ii. The Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500
iii. Reading a Stock Page
- What is Economics?
- Economic Systems
- Adam Smith and the Market Economy
- Karl Marx and the Socialist Economy
ii. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
- Business Organizations and Financial Markets
- Types of Businesses (Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Corporation)
- Stocks and Bonds
ii. The Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500
iii. Reading a Stock Page
- 401(k), IRA
- Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium
- Shifts in Supply and Demand
- Elasticity of Supply and Demand
- Types of Markets (Monopolistic Competition, Monopoly, Oligopoly)
- National Income Accounting (GDP,GNP, CPI, personal income)
- The Business Cycle
- Causes of inflation
- Causes of Recession
- The Federal Reserve Bank and Monetary Policy
- Fiscal Policy (John Keynes)
- Government Budget
- Spending and taxation
- Deficit spending and the national debt
- International Trade