What economics is about -- Economic activities: producing and trading -- Supply and demand: theory -- Supply and demand: applications -- Macroeconomic measurements, part I: prices and unemployment -- Macroeconomic measurements, part II: GDP and real GDP -- Aggregate demand and aggregate supply -- The self-regulating economy -- Economic instability: a critique of the self-regulating economy -- Fiscal policy and the federal budget -- Money and banking -- The Federal Reserve System -- Money and the economy -- Monetary policy -- Expectations theory and the economy -- Economic growth -- International trade -- International finance -- Organization and international impacts on the economy -- Stocks, bonds, futures, and options-- Agriculture: problems, policies, and unintended effects.