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Art of Critical Decision Making 
By Professor Michael A. Roberto, Bryant University
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Making a good decision is a skill—one that can be learned, honed, and perfected. Now, approach the important decisions in your life with a more seasoned, educated eye. The Art of Critical Decision Making explores how individuals, groups, and organizations make effective choices. These 24 fascinating lectures also provide you with the skills and techniques you need to enhance the effectiveness of your own decision making. Taught by Professor Michael A. Roberto—a scholar of managerial decision making—this course is an engaging and practical guide to one of the most fundamental activities in your everyday life.
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Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond
By Professor Scott P. Stevens, James Madison University
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Game theory—the science of interactive, rational decision making—helps us understand how and why we make decisions. It also provides insights into human endeavors including biology, politics, and economics. In Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond, business consultant and award-winning Professor Scott P. Stevens helps you understand this profoundly important field. Throughout these 24 enlightening lectures, you explore the fundamentals of game theory in an engaging, comprehensible manner. You investigate the field's classic games, encounter its greatest minds, and discover its real world applications in arenas including corporate negotiations, foreign policy—and your everyday life.
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Economics, 3rd Edition
By Professor Timothy Taylor, Macalester College
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We are all economists—when we work, buy, save, invest, pay taxes, and vote. It repays us many times over to be good economists. Economic issues are active in our lives every day. This course helps you think about and discuss economic issues that affect you and the nation every day—interest rates, unemployment, personal investing, budget deficits, globalization, and many more—with a greater level of knowledge and sophistication. Throughout this course, Professor Timothy Taylor helps you apply what you are learning to many of today's most frequently discussed issues.
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Understanding Complexity
By Professor Scott E. Page, University of Michigan
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Discover and grasp the fundamentals and applications of the amazing field of complexity science with Understanding Complexity. Professor Scott E. Page—one of the field's most highly regarded teachers and researchers—shows you how complexity science helps us understand the nature and behavior of financial markets, corporations, native cultures, governments, and other systems that play important roles in our increasingly complex world. By the conclusion of the course, you'll have attained a new lens through which to better view and make sense of your world.
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Thinking about Capitalism
By Professor Jerry Z. Muller, The Catholic University of America
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In an era of increasing globalization, capitalism plays a dramatic role in the world economy and your everyday life. Explore the wealth of perspectives on this pervasive economic force in Thinking about Capitalism, and gain fresh insights into capitalism's history, its proponents and opponents, and its startling impact on our world. Drawing on his exceptional ability to frame each thinker's concerns within its historical context, intellectual historian and Professor Jerry Z. Muller takes you beyond economic analysis to look at capitalism's many moral, political, and cultural ramifications. These 36 engaging lectures are the perfect way to grasp the intricacies of this vital economic system.
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America and the New Global Economy
By Professor Timothy Taylor, Macalester College
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Join expert economist and award-winning Professor Timothy Taylor as he takes you through the last 50 years of world economic history. In the 36 lectures of America and the New Global Economy, travel beyond the economy of the United States and explore the recent history of economies in countries and regions such as China, India, the Middle East, and Latin America. Study international perspectives on the new global economy, focus on important economic issues ranging from international labor flows to population growth, and develop a deeper understanding of our increasingly interconnected economic world—and America's role within it.
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Modern Economic Issues
By Professor Robert Whaples, Wake Forest University
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How do the major economic issues that dominate today's news—questions about gross domestic product or budget deficits or trade imbalances—impact the average citizen? Why are health insurance and college tuition increasingly expensive? What can be done about soaring energy prices? Professor Robert Whaples explains not only the urgent issues we all need to understand, but also the raw data economists use to describe their shape and impact. Make the connection between the economics you may have studied in school and the economics we experience in every day life.
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Legacies of Great Economists
By Professor Timothy Taylor, Macalester College
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When it comes to economics and economic theory, a few thinkers dominate the landscape: Adam Smith. Karl Marx. Alfred Marshall. John Maynard Keynes. Legacies of Great Economists by economist and Professor Timothy Taylor acquaint you with the thoughts, theories, and lives of these and other great economists—those individuals who have shaped the world of economics and influenced our lives. These lectures provide a fresh take on how various economic theories were formed, how subsequent economists fine-tuned those theories, and how despite the passage of time, core economic doctrine remains even in the 21st century.
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History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century
By Professor Timothy Taylor, Macalester College
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Speaking with authority and credibility, economist and award-winning Professor Timothy Taylor delivers a wealth of insights into the economic history of the last 100 years of our nation in A History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century. This fast-paced course introduces you to vital economic lessons learned in the last century and provides you with invaluable guidance for understanding the current economy. In some cases, you examine well-defined events like the creation of the Federal Reserve. In others, you explore larger societal shifts, such as the evolving role of women in the economy or changing consumption patterns. As Professor Taylor remarks, knowing economic history "helps discussions about the present get off on the right foot, free of at least some of the myths and ignorance that can so easily lead us astray."
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Business Law: Contracts
By Professor Frank B. Cross, The University of Texas at Austin
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What is a contract? How can you make one binding? What can you do to get out of a contract? What special rules apply to international contracts? These questions and other important issues of legally enforceable promises are covered in Business Law: Contracts. Former attorney and Professor Frank B. Cross lays a comprehensive foundation in the practical and intricate body of law that governs contracts. By the conclusion of his course, you'll realize why contractual agreements are one of the principal mechanisms for ordering our society.
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