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
8. Religion
9. Shopping
- Elizabeth Cline, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
- Bah, Humbug
- The Winner’s Curse
- In Search of the Perfect Christmas Tree
- Automobiles: Different People, Different Prices
- Good Intentions Gone Awry
10. War and the Economy
- War Is A Racket -by Major General Smedley Butler
- Iraq’s missing billions – documentary on corruption of contractors
- Some numbers on the size of US military
- Book: Ian Morris, War! What is it good for? Conflict and the progress of civilization from primates to robots
11. Financial system, money and banking
- The American Dream – documentary
- Money, banking and the federal reserve system – documentary
- William Black: How to rob a bank (from the inside, that is) – ted talk
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- CORE textbook – ebook
- Economics for Real People, Gene Callahan
- Books at Mises.org – free online
- R.Florida: Detroit: The Next American Ghost Town? – Americans start to get over their dependence on automobile and big house
- http://www.bizbrain.org/auto-industry/ life and death of auto industry
- http://www.bizbrain.org/startup-bubble/
- Social Security Programs Throughout the World – data from SSA
- NYC economic problems
- US economic issues at www.progress.org
- Center for economic and policy research – current issues
- www.givewell.org – charity reviews