Other author/creator | Schoumacher, David. |
Other author/creator | Gill, Richard T. (Richard Thomas), 1927-2010. |
Other author/creator | Nesbitt, Frank. |
Other author/creator | Murdock, John M. |
Other author/creator | Brier, Richard Paul. |
Other author/creator | Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates. |
Other author/creator | Educational Film Center (Annandale, Va.) |
Other author/creator | Annenberg Media. |
Variant title |
Economics USA |
Variant title |
Economics United States of America |
Contents |
Disc 1. Programs 1-6: Resources and scarcity ; Markets and prices ; U.S. economic growth ; Booms and busts ; John Maynard Keynes ; Fiscal policy Disc 2. Programs 7-12: Inflation ; The banking system ; The Federal Reserve ; Stagflation ; Productivity ; Federal deficits -- Disc 3. Programs 13-18: Monetary policy ; Stabilization policy ; The firm ; Supply and demand ; Perfect competition and inelastic demand ; Economic efficiency -- Disc 4. Programs 19-24: Monopoly ; Oligopolies ; Pollution ; Labor and management ; Profits and interest ; Reducing poverty ; Disc 5. Programs 25-28: Economic growth ; Public goods and responsibility ; International trade ; Exchange rates. |
Abstract |
Explores the fundamentals of economic history, theory, and practice, including microeconomics and macroeconomics, through interview with Nobel Prize-winning economists. The series features Milton Friedman, Paul Samuelson, John Kenneth Galbraith, Walter Heller, and others. In each program, case studies of major exonomic events show how economic theory relates to the real world. Made for college and high school classrooms and adult learners. |
General note | Released as video fall 1986, updated 1992 and 2002. |
Credits | Videographers, John M. Murdock ... [et al.] ; editors, Frank Nesbitt ... [et al.] ; music, Richard Paul Brier. |
Performer |
Correspondent: David Schoumacher ; economist, Richard T. Gill. |
Technical details | DVD. |
ISBN | 1576807444 |
ISBN | 9781576807446 |