Goal-setting and action-planning
This video helps students establish criteria for attainable goals and objectives, and shows them how to evaluate goals on the basis of these criteria. Students begin to draft their own goal lists and action plans for implementing their search.
Unemployment, inflation, and national output
This program begins to look at how cycles in an economy develop by explaining how unemployment, inflation, and gross domestic product are measured. The program also introduces aggregate supply and demand, and uses these concepts to spell out why bus...
Assets and payroll
Giving equal time to two vital accounting topics, this program explains how accountants handle assets and payroll. The video begins with the acquisition and retention of tangible fixed assets through capital expenditures and revenue expenditures. Th...
Are boycotts of sweatshop products helpful?: international trade, labor markets, and minimum wage
This segment looks beyond protests against "sweatshop" factories, proposing that employing workers in developing countries benefits all markets. Likewise, it submits that implementing minimum wages endangers those markets. NOTE: This program is part...
The art of the interview
Featuring Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and documentary producer Patti Obrow White, this program explores the art and science of conducting journalistic interviews. White shares her knowledge of numerous topics, such as preparing to meet the ...
NewsHour business ethics anthology. Pt. 2 of 2
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is renowned for its balanced, in-depth reporting. This anthology of NewsHour segments comes to terms with thorny issues of business ethics. Through interviews with key figures and insightful analysis, the anthology blend...
Wal-Mart: competition and costs
Exploring competition, overhead, and cost of living, this segment asks: Does a company like Wal-Mart exploit workers in the U.S. and abroad? Or, by lowering prices, does it give consumers what amounts to a raise? NOTE: This program is part of the la...
GDP and the multiplier process
In the first of two programs on fiscal policy, we take a behind-the-scenes look at the aggregate demand curve. Key concepts include how the equilibrium level of GDP is determined and how the multiplier process works.
Money and banking
This program examines government attempts to stabilize the economy, focusing on monetary policy. Concepts explored include fractional reserve banking, the deposits in chartered banks as a major component of the country's money supply, and how charte...
Face and place
Across Asia, the notion of "face" - a propriety of appearances - is being replaced by Western frankness, while traditional caste systems are yielding to wealth as the determinant of status. This program profiles three executives who typify the chang...