1. Education

• TED:  How to escape education’s death valley – problems in US education
• TED: Bartik: The economic case for preschool
• TED: How state budgets are breaking US schools – Bill Gates
• Why Is Higher Education So Expensive? – supply and demand
• Public colleges can be free
• College is a rip-off? – loans debt crisis
• COLLEGE, INC. – for-profit colleges
• Funding Options
• Attendance Policies
• Why Don’t They Learn?
• Educational Lemons
• Never Again; Again
• Grades:  Too High or Too Low?
• Consumption Skills
• Is College Worth It?   – Green brothers
• Massive open online forces – economics of MOOCs
• Education standards: Best and brightest – the economist

2. Healthcare 

• Introduction to healthcare in the US – video course, Khan
• Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? – J. Green
• Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform – J. Green’s case for healthcare reform
• Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us – TIME
• Why is American healthcare so ridiculously expensive? – Atlantic
• How US healthcare wastes money – the Atlantic
• The myth of free market healthcare – the Atlantic
• How Is U.S. Health Care Bad? 
• Why US leads the world in health expenditures – NYtimes
• Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? – J. Green
• Drug prices – bloomberg 2014
• Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform – J. Green’s case for healthcare reform
• Clayton Christensen on US healthcare 
• 1% of patients account for 21% of healthcare costs 
• Obama’s deal – PBS
• The Simplest Explanation Of Obamacare. – cartoon
• An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal – book 2017

3. Healthcare systems worldwide

• Ranking of world health systems
• Global issues in healthcare 
•  $200 minus $200 – Slate article on healthcare in France
• World Health Report: Path to Universal Coverage 2010 – WHO
• World Health Report: Health Systems 2000 – WHO
• Most efficient healthcare systems – huffingtonpost

4. Healthcare & incentives

• Markets in Kidneys: A Moral Case
• Where There’s Smoke, There’s Controversy – externalities of smoking and taxes

• Economics and Health: Healthcare, Medical Issues & Income
• Social Constructions of Health: “Sick Role,” “Physician’s Role” & Profit Motive in Medicine
• Saving Lives Can be Dangerous – moral hazard in insurance markets

5. Food

• Supermarket secrets – documentary
• Edible economics – Cowen’s book review
• GMOs – mruniversity
• Why Is There Corn in Your Coke?
• Hill: Why I’m a weekday vegetarian – TED
• Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat – TED
• Food stamp recipients
• Tyler Cowen discusses his book ‘An economics gets lunch’ – video
• Obesity  -scishow
• Book: N.Freudenberg, Lethal but legal: Corporations, consumption, and protecting public health

6. Inequality

• Income inequality debate – council on foreign relations
• Wealth inequality in America video
• Inclusive capitalism – economic policies in the US, NYT
• Stiglitz, The price of inequality – vanity fair
• Stiglitz, How to fix inequality – the Atlantic

• Piketty: New Thoughts on capital in the 21st century – ted
• Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies  -TED, real effects on health, lifespan,etc
• Freeland: The rise of the new global super-rich – TED
• Economic Mobility: The American Dream Revisited
• Economic Mobility: The Role of College 
• Rising U.S. Wage Inequality: Whither the Middle Class 
• Inequality: the choices we made – some laws made it worse
• Inequality and poverty in US – numbers
• Inequality article – NYT 2015

7.  Recession, unemployment, wages

• The Great Recession: Part One 
• The Great Recession: Part Two 
• U.S. Labor Markets: Longer-term Perspective 
• Low wages cost economy money – Berkeley