Center for Economic and Policy Research Basic Economics Seminars

1: The Basics of Good Economics -- Framing the Issues Right

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2: Growth I -- Why Economists Worry About It So Much, and Why You Should Too

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3: Three Important Economic Distributions and the Politics that Shape Them

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4: Growth II -- The Long-Term Economic Failure in Developing Countries

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5: Trade -- What Are the Gains and Who Gets Them

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6: When Women Get Paid for Work: The Entry of Women to the Paid Labor Market

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7: Horatio Alger is Dead

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8: The Fed: What It Is, and Why It Matters

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9: Financial Bubbles: What They Are and What Should Be Done

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10: Intellectual Property -- Patents, Copyrights, and Other Protectionist Barriers

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