Helps instructors and students to choose which issues they wish to cover in their one-semester survey course. This book provides a list of suggested issues to cover in a course with specific themes, such as social policy, international issues, or business. It explores economic issues such as sports, education, and ticket scalping.

Preface Issues Chapter Grid Suggested Issues for Themed Courses I. Theory Chapters 1: Economics: The Study of Opportunity Cost 2: Supply and Demand 3: Elasticity, Consumer Surplus, and Producer Surplus 4: Interest Rates and Present Value 5: Production and Costs 6: Perfect Competition and Monopoly 7: Macroeconomic Vocabulary 8: Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand II. Issue Chapters Part 1: Macroeconomic Issues 9: Federal Spending 10: Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt 11: Fiscal Policy 12: Monetary Policy 13: Overstatement of the Cost of Living by the CPI Part 2: International Issues 14: International Trade 15: International Monetary Fund 16: NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO Part 3: Externalities and Market Failure 17: Drugs and Prostitution 18: Tobacco and Alcohol 19: Environment Part 4: Health Issues 20: Health Care 21: Medicare 22: Prescription Drugs Part 5: Governmental Solutions to Societal Problems 23: Crime 24: Education 25: Poverty and Welfare 26: Social Security Part 6: Discrimination Issues 27: Race and Affirmative Action 28: Gender Part 7: Price Control Issues 29: Farm Policy 30: Minimum Wage 31: Rent Control 32: Ticket Brokers and Scalping Part 8: Miscellaneous Markets 33: Personal Income Taxes 34: Anti-Trust 35: Oil Prices 36: Sports 37: The Stock Market 38: Unions 39: Medicaid 40: Taxing the Return on Capital 41: Head Start 42: Children Answers to 'Quiz Yourself' Questions Glossary