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Series: Economics: Productivity and Growth

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About this Series

  • Lessons: 12
  • Total Time: 1h 41m
  • Use: Watch Online & Download
  • Access Period: Unlimited
  • Created At: 04/01/2010
  • Last Updated At: 04/01/2010

This twelve lesson unit includes three discrete video series. The unit as a whole deals with productivity and growth.

The first series of four video lessons will teach you about the elements of productivity and growth in an economic context. The first video will teach you about the rule of 70, compounding, and growth. This next video lesson looks at the PPF (Production Possibilities Frontier), the AD/AS (Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply) Model, and Long-Run Growth. It also looks at the relationships among these three. The third video will teach you about the production function and how it relates to growth. The final video lesson in this series looks at the definition of productivity and factors affecting it.

The next four videos will cover the economic concepts of policy and growth. The first video looks at the concept of investment. In the second video lesson, you'll learn about other policies to encourage growth. The third lesson in this series looks at women's roles in rural economic growth, and the final lesson in this series looks at Post-WWII Japan as a case study to bring together and augment ideas and information from the preceding lessons in this series.

The final four lessons in this unit will teach you about the economics of emerging economies. The first video lesson in this series will look at growth in emerging economies. The next video lesson will teach you about policies that promote growth. We'll then have a video on the myth of exploding populations. The final video lesson in this series looks at growing pains in Indonesia as a case study example to bring together all of our learnings on emerging economies.

Taught by Professor Tomlinson, this video series was selected from a broader, comprehensive course, Economics. This course and others are available from Thinkwell, Inc. The full course can be found at http://www.thinkwell.com/student/product/economics. The full course covers economic thinking, markets, consumer choice, household behavior, production, costs, perfect competition, market models, resource markets, market failures, market outcomes, macroeconomics, macroeconomic measurements, economic fluctuations, unemployment, inflation, the aggregate expenditures model, banking, spending, saving, investing, aggregate demand and aggregate supply model, monetary policy, fiscal policy, productivity and growth, and international examples.

Steven Tomlinson teaches economics at the Acton School of Business in Austin, Texas. He graduated with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma and earned a Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University. Prof. Tomlinson's academic awards include the prestigious Texas Excellence Teaching Award given by the University of Texas Alumni Association and being named "Outstanding Core Faculty in the MBA Program" several times. He has developed several instructional guides and computerized educational programs for economics.

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10/21/2011
~ Jarone

This is good, but is there a video where I can learn the Slow-swan model, Cobb-Douglas, and AK model ??? This is extremely important to me, since I have an issue finding them on the website.l

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