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Aplia
- Interactive problem sets, tutorials, and experiments
- Keat and Young
- Pearson / Prentice-Hall
- Hirshey
- Southwestern
- Samuelson and Marks
- Wiley
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UMassOnline
- Web enhanced course material on Prometheus
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Introduction to Economic Analysis
- by R. Preston McAfee, California Institute of Technology
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Free Online Graph Paper
- from incompetech dot com
- Readings in Economics for Managers
- Tran Huu Dung, Wright State University
- May the Best Team Win
- Only A Game, 4/19/2003, "In the preface to May the Best Team Win, Andrew Zimbalist, an expert on the economics of The Pastime, maintains that baseball's 'recurrent problems have a common cause: monopoly.'"
- Strike!
- Only A Game, Saturday, August 17, 2002, "Strike Economics" Talk of competitive balance and luxury taxes can sometimes sound like gobbledygook. Bill Littlefield turns to James Meehan Jr., Professor of Economics at Colby College in Waterville, Maine for an explanation.
- The Business of Baseball
- The Connection, August 15th, 2001
- Betting on Terror
- The Connection, 8/4/2003
- Tell It Slant
- Economic Principals, August 3, 2003
a follow-up to the audio above.
- Ocean Spray Asks for Cap on Cranberry Production
- WBUR News, Report by Jason Beaubien, 2001-02-05.
- Crystal Meth: Kids' Dangerous New Drug of Choice
- On Point, Wednesday, June 12, 2002.
- Textile Wars
- On Point, Monday, December 13, 2004.
- Heroin: The Troubling Cash Crop of Afghanistan
- On Point, Wednesday, December 12, 2001 .
- Ending World Hunger
- The Connection, Show Originally Aired: 1/24/2001.
- Addicted to Oil: Part One
- The Connection, Show Originally Aired: 4/25/2005.
- Sustainable Farming
- Here and Now, Wednesday, May 04, 2005.
- Making Wise Choices With a Limited Food Budget
- WBUR Public Radio, Gretchen Lehmann, (2003-05-15)
- The Fix is In
- This American Life, September 15, 2000: Episode 168
"We hear from Kurt Eichenwald, whose book The Informant is about the price fixing conspiracy..."
- Pimp Anthropology
- This American Life, 4/16/99: Episode 127
"A former pimp tells how he and three childhood friends became pimps in the 1970's in Oakland, California."
- Something for Nothing
- This American Life, 5/2/97: Episode 62
"As everyone knows, there's no such thing as something for nothing."
- Sentencing
- This American Life, 10/22/99: Episode 143
"This hour examines the areas where a consensus is growing on the problems in federal drug laws, and it explains the areas where drug laws seem to be administered fairly."
- Monopoly, Present at the Creation
- Morning Edition, November 25, 2002, from National Public Radio
It's the most-played board game in the world. Though it's considered the ultimate contest of money and power, it started out as a cautionary exercise to make Americans aware of the excesses of capitalism. On Morning Edition, NPR's Juan Williams reports on Monopoly's humble roots, as part of the Present at the Creation series. (8:38)
- Free Trade vs. Fair Trade
- On Point, Tuesday, September 09, 2003
"...the free trade formula: let each nation do what it does best, and all will prosper."
- Looking for a Match
- The Connection, 2/22/2005
- Economics of Baseball
- The Weidenbaum Center Forum sponsored a conference on the economics of major league baseball on May 29, 2001.
- Math and Economics
- NewsHour Extra A NewsHour with Jim Lehrer special for students.
- Flu Economics
- BBC Radio 4 11/11/04
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PepsiWorld
- Thirsty?
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Learning Curve Calculator
- NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Taxes make smokers happy
- from CNN and MONEY Magazine, Apr. 23, 2002
- The Excelets Page
- Excelets are Graph Movies
(Excelets are Applets made with Excel instead of Java)
such as...
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Cost Curves and How the Relate
- Click here to find an article about how long-run and short-run cost curves relate.
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