The Best of Economics

by Arnold Kling

index of youtube videos

  1. Introduction
  2. Growth Arithmetic Cheat Sheet

    3. Growth Theory

  3. Growth Across Time
  4. Growth in Different Countries
  5. An Economic Calculation: Should You Buy a Vacation Timeshare?
  6. Capital and Rental Cost
  7. Opportunity Cost, Profit, and Comparative Advantage
  8. Scale and Substitution
  9. The Production Function and Aggregation
  10. Accounting for Growth
  11. Success and Failure of Social Systems
  12. Mathematical Growth Models
  13. The Rich and the Poor
  14. Practice Questions on Capital, Comparative Advantage, Scale, and Substitution
  15. Practice Questions on the Production Function, Growth Facts, and Growth Accounting
  16. Practice Questions on Growth and Social Systems, Mathematical Growth Models, and Wealth and Poverty

    17. The entire chapter (for printing)

    Saving, Finance, and Social Security

  17. The Real Interest Rate and Annuities
  18. Pensions and Social Security
  19. The Economics of Social Security
  20. Basic Financial Calculations
  21. Efficient Markets and the Portfolio Theorem
  22. Futures and Options
  23. Personal Finance
  24. Corporate Finance

    25. The entire saving chapter (for printing)

    Markets (Microeconomics)

  25. Introduction to Markets
  26. Consumers and Utility
  27. Relative Prices, Demand Elasticity, and Leisure
  28. Borrowing, Lending, and Human Capital
  29. Producers and Profit Maximization
  30. Efficiency, Supply and Demand, and Market Clearing
  31. The Gains from Trade
  32. Tariffs and Quotas
  33. The Problem of Monopoly
  34. Public Goods
  35. Some Classic Policy Issues
  36. Money Vs. Barter

    37. The first half of the markets chapter (for printing)

    The second half of the markets chapter (for printing)

    Macroeconomics

  37. Introduction to Macroeconomics
  38. A Basic Macroeconomic Equation System
  39. Fiscal Policy
  40. Investment as an Endogenous Variable
  41. The Trade Balance as an Endogenous Variable
  42. The Real Exchange Rate as an Endogenous Variable
  43. The Real Interest Rate as an Endogenous Variable
  44. Inflation as an Endogenous Variable
  45. Employment and Unemployment
  46. Macroeconomic Policy Challenges
  47. Theoretical Controversies

    48. Macroeconomics chapter (for printing)

    Information Economics

    NOTE As of 9-30-02 these sections have not yet been written. Look for them to appear before the end of 2002. Meanwhile, I have written extensively on these topics for TechCentralStation. See my essays, particularly the more recent ones (near the bottom of the lifxst of essays).

  48. Moore's Law
  49. Moore's Law and Economic Growth
  50. Asymptotically Free Goods
  51. Network Effects
  52. Asymmetric Information