One of the marvels of our wonderful democracy is that we have a people's legislature. Well, not quite, since each person elected must figure out how to raise millions and millions of dollars to convince a skeptical bunch of voters to vote for him or her instead of the opposition. A citizenship and age requirement are about the only criteria for being a member of Congress. There are no education or knowledge requirements to legislate the people's business, enact and debate complex legislation on hundreds of topics, debate countless labyrinths of thousands of pages of proposed bills, or to appear as guests on television talk shows.
- Introductory economics, topics including economic effects of public spending versus economic effects of tax cuts; multiplier effects of various spending proposals; trade retaliation from protectionism; interpretation of basic economic indicators such as GDP, unemployment, consumer prices; and the difference between positive economics (what actually "is" or what actually "can be" as opposed to what people wish for or results based on value judgments and ideology).
- A brief course in economic history, with emphasis on economic recessions and depressions, beginning with the financial crises at the turn of the century which led to the creation of the Federal Reserve System. Then, continuing, an analysis of the Great Depression, the New Deal, war economics, and then continuing to the economic effects of monetary and fiscal policies that have been enacted in the last half century, including Reagonomics, supply-side economics, and Federal Reserve monetary policies.
- A course in regulation and deregulation of financial institutions and of other segments of the economy and of the economic effects of such regulatory policies.
- A course in basic ethics, including topics such as honesty, integrity, obeying the law, morality, nepotism, fraud, and deceit, among other topics. Watch power-point presentations of current and recent examples of violations of these basic principles.
- A course on the global economy.
- A course on the standards of reliable knowledge and of the critical importance of using actual facts, as best we know them at the time, and reliable information in debate and in the writing and enacting of legislation.
- A course in health economics.


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