Students' questions about economics, part two

I ordered the questions in categories for easier analysis:

Questions we have about modern economics: 

Questions about corporations and the business world:

• Are corporations overall a political, ethical, criminal, environmental problem?
• Does business really self-regulate?
• Is competition really fair, egalitarian, and efficient?

Questions about economics, sustainability and the environment in general:

• How do we protect the environment?
• Is growth compatible with environmental protection?
• Does it make sense to worry about sustainability as an individual?
• Where is renewable energy in all this? 

Questions about economics and human well-being:

• Is ever increasing money wealth good for people, communities, and countries?
• What effects does economics, consumerism, and industrialization have on the psyche?

Questions about economics itself:

• Do economies really need to continue to grow exponentially?
• Does trickle-down economics really make any sense?
• How much of modern economics is scientific? How much is a self-serving mythology? 

 Questions about American political economy and the social system:

• How much does this (economics) affect our politics?
•  Will the middle class survive as we know it? And should we actually want it to?
• If we don't tax the wealthy and can't otherwise control them or use them usefully what do we do with them? 
• Can/should the government cap wealth?
• Should money equal power?
• Citizens United - does it change our ability to regulate corporations and elites?
• Leadership - how do we get change?
• Where is education in all this?
• Is personal debt a form of social control?
• Can we change the definition of wealth?

The ultimate question (?):

• Economics: What lies beyond?