This course will examine six key economic issues: GDP and economic growth, economic inequality, the government deficit and mounting national debt, our inefficient health care system, high prescription drug prices in the U.S., and immigration.
- Is it time to end our fixation with economic growth?
- Has the US’s widening income and wealth inequality undermined the American Dream?
- Will the US’s mounting national debt stymie future prosperity?
- Can America’s dysfunctional health care system be fixed?
- Can America’s surging pharmaceutical drug prices be tamed?
- Would Native-born Americans be better off with more or fewer immigrants?
