Texas Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits (Apex)

Texas Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits is a one-semester course that offers a tightly focused and scaffolded curriculum that provides an introduction to key economic principles. The course covers fundamental properties of economics, including an examination of markets from both historical and current perspectives; the basics of supply and demand; the theories of early economic philosophers such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo; theories of value; the concept of money and how it evolved; the role of banks, investment houses, and the Federal Reserve; Keynesian economics; the productivity, wages, investment, and growth involved in capitalism; unemployment, inflations, and the national debt; and a survey of the global economy.

This updated course was originally created for Apex Courses and is now available in Courseware.