| 回 | 項目 | 内容 |
| 第1回 | Introduction;
financial crisis and Sub-Prime Loan | Starting with the American finacial crisis in 2008 and capital markets melt down with Sub-Prime Loan. Discussing about the transparency and government regulations in capital markets. |
| 第2回 | "Immigrants Nations" and "American Dreams" | Trying to discuss; what is "Immigrants Nations" and "American Dreams"? Examining the population structure, race, mobility between regions after twentieth century.
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| 第3回 | Immigrants workers as low incomer and high incomer | Examining the American historical income class changes, and approaching the income gaps and the reasons from the point of view of the educational attainment. |
| 第4回 | 1960s Johnson and 1970s Nixson administration | Rethinking the Democrats and Republicans economic policies and federal government intervention.
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| 第5回 | Reagan administration and its government reform and economic theory | Rethinking the "Reaganomics" in 1980s, and discussing the failure of the supply-side policies, budget deficits, "Young Report".
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| 第6回 | Clinton and Bush Administration Comparison | Comparing the features of Clinton and Bush(junior) administration, and discussing the federal government's finacial and monetary policies for each.
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| 第7回 | Federal governemnt R&D spendings and military-Industry Complex | Overviewing the Federal governemnt's R&D spendings under the Cold War and "Military-Industry Complex".
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| 第8回 | Patent policy and WTO | Discussing the patent policies and attitude toward China in 1990s to 2000s under WTO.
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| 第9回 | BOEING reform; manufacturing sector's competitiveness | Thinking a case study for BOEING. We try to examine the Boeing reform action after 2000s by the Japanese company of TOYOTA.
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| 第10回 | US government and free market(1); Federal level | Discussing the American government of Federal level in Washington DC, politics, Federal law makeing process, vetos, and partisan. |
| 第11回 | US government and free market(2); State level | Discussing the American Government of state level; a case study of Illinois State. |
| 第12回 | US government and free market(3); Local level | Discussing American Government of Local Level; a case study of Chicago City. |
| 第13回 | US government and free market(4); Education policies and issues as Local level | Discussing American Government on Education as Local level(school district), a case study of Chicago Public Schools. |
| 第14回 | Discussion and Debate | Discussing the highlighted points across the whole lecture. |
| 第15回 | Final test | Final test
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