VIDEO: What is Capitalism? - GRADE 6-12
This video describes what is meant by the term 'Free-Market Capitalism.' LINK
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- Jan 15, 2016
VIDEO: Why Did Contract Laborers Come to Hawaii? - GRADE 7-12
In this video, ex-workers recount memories of working at the Ka'u sugar plantation on Hawaii Island. Contract laborers from Japan,...
- Jan 15, 2016
LESSON PLAN: Price Graph Stories - GRADE 7-12
A lesson plan providing practice in constructing and interpreting demand graphs, supply graphs, and market equilibrium. Directed at...
- Jan 15, 2015
ONLINE COURSE: FEE - The Branches of Government - GRADE 8-12
An online course from the Foundation for Economic Education introducing the reasoning behind the divisions of the federal government and...
- Jan 15, 2015
VIDEO: It's a Wonderful Loaf - GRADE 9-12
A video about the wonder of market coordination through prices. For grades 9-12. LINK
- Jan 15, 2015
LESSON PLAN: Externalities - GRADE 8-12
A lesson plan on externalities for middle school students and up. Also useful for Civics classes to understand the potential economic...
- Mar 15, 2014
LESSON PLAN: Intro to the Economy - Econ Vocab Exercise - GRADE 9-10
Econ vocabulary exercise covering demand, supply, and opportunity cost, among other economic terms. For grades 9-10.
- Jan 16, 2014
VIDEO: Art Laffer on the Laffer Curve - GRADE 9-12
A short video featuring none other than Art Laffer explaining his eponymous curve. The Laffer Curve recognizes that tax rates may become...
- Jan 15, 2014
VIDEOS: Our Missing Trillions - GRADE 9-12
Where do our tax dollars go? In these videos students will learn how 25% of the defense budget has gone missing for decades. By 2018, $21...
- Jan 15, 2014
ONLINE COURSE: FEE - The Constitution - GRADE 9-12
This online course from the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) will help students understand Constitution of the United States of...
- Jan 15, 2014
ONLINE COURSE: FEE - Origins of the American Revolution - GRADE 9-12
An online course from the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) discussing the principles that guided the Founders in the creation of...
- Jan 15, 2014
VIDEO: Historical Growth in Wealth and Living Standards - GRADE 9-12
Celebrated economic historian Dr. Stephen Davies looks at the economic conditions of modernity (which have resulted in at least a 10-fold...
- Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: What If There Were No Prices? - GRADE 10-12
A video explaining how market prices aggregate information across the entire economy, allowing market actors to make rational decisions...
- Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: I, Pencil - GRADE 10-12
A video explaining Leonard E. Read's 1958 essay "I, Pencil", which describes the seeming miracle of economic cooperation brought about by...
- Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: Should Hawaii Abolish Zoning? - GRADE 10-12
A discussion around some of the pitfalls associated with zoning, and how it increases house prices. Restoring development right to...
- Jan 15, 2013
LESSON PLAN: Economic Coordination and the Free Market - GRADE 10-12
Lesson plan demonstrating the advantages of using the free market to organize economic activity. For grades 10-12.
- Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: Why Housing in Tokyo Is So Affordable - GRADE 10-12
Greater Tokyo is considered the world's largest city with a population exceeding 37 million residents, and yet its housing costs are a...
- Jan 15, 2012
VIDEO: Tax Revenue and Deadweight Losses - GRADE 11-12
This video explains how taxation: (i) reduces economic welfare by increasing the price consumers must pay for goods, (ii) reduces the net...
- Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: Traditional, Market, and Command Economic Systems - GRADE 11-12
An exercise to help students understand the differences between Traditional, Market, and Command economic systems and how each operates....
- Jan 15, 2012
VIDEO: What Made the Modern World? - GRADE 11-12
Celebrated economic historian Dr. Stephen Davies recounts economic growth over the past 200 years (a 10-fold increase in average global...
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