"Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also of substantial economic importance in the United States, sufficient to warrant the Bureau of Economic Analysis's establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this...

An overview of the history of economic ideas -- The ethical foundations of economics -- Property rights from Plato to the 21st century -- The emergence of modern price theory -- Money, lending and interest -- Public finance in historical perspective -- Depressing thoughts - theories of...