The American Economy; 8
- Series
- The American Economy
- Episode Number
- 8
- Producing Organization
- Learning Resources Institute
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-8s4jm24c00
- NOLA Code
- AECO
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- Description
- Series Description
- "Never in the history of man has an economic empire grown to such stature as that which developed on the shores of the New World and which today flourishes as the American Economy. How and why does our complex economic system work as it does? To help the layman build a more objective understanding of the how and the why, the American Economic Association Joint Council on Economic Education and the National Task Force on Economic Education have co-sponsored a series of 160 lessons aptly entitled, The American Economy. The series is taught by Dr. John R. Coleman, Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He graduated from the University of Toronto and obtained a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Dr. Coleman is co-author of several well-known books in labor economics. In commenting on The American Economy, the magazine Audiovisual Instruction stated, "Professor Coleman... has maintained a most impressive balance among audio and visual factors, utilizing each most skillfully to promote learning." This special course has two direct aims: (1) to help today's citizens understand an economic world in which they are everyday participants... as consumers, jobholders, investors, and voters, and (2) to help tomorrow's citizens by furthering the economic education of their teachers. Professor Coleman has also developed a select list of 60 lessons from The American Economy, which, according to his experience could be used with profit in the high schools. Professor Coleman describes his abridgment of the series in this way: "Emphasis is upon the same breadth that was sought in the entire series, but with sufficient depth in two areas (the pricing system and the determination of the total level of spending and employment) to enable viewers to master and use some basic economic tools." (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1962-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Producing Organization: Learning Resources Institute
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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- Citations
- Chicago: “The American Economy; 8,” 1962-00-00, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 3, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-8s4jm24c00.
- MLA: “The American Economy; 8.” 1962-00-00. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 3, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-8s4jm24c00>.
- APA: The American Economy; 8. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-8s4jm24c00