Recent Scholarship

Modern Economic Issues Lectures on CD and DVD

By Robert Whaples

Professor and Chair, Department of Economics

May 01, 2008

Faculty Affiliate Dr. Robert Whaples is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University. Last year The Teaching Company filmed a series of 36 30-minute lectures presented by Dr. Whaples on current economic issues. The lectures are available on CD and DVD.

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?

Read more about the lectures here.