Economics students can use this useful Diver & Surfboard mnemonic to remember that: The Demand curve (Diver) slopes downward - because...

A whimsical take on negative externalities using the example of potato chips. The video also discusses the difficulty of implementing a...

A video explaining how market prices aggregate information across the entire economy, allowing market actors to make rational decisions...

A video explaining Leonard E. Read's 1958 essay "I, Pencil", which describes the seeming miracle of economic cooperation brought about by...

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I...

This lesson is designed to give students a basic understanding of the inflationary effects of increasing the money supply relative to the...

A discussion around some of the pitfalls associated with zoning, and how it increases house prices. Restoring development right to...

Lesson plan demonstrating the advantages of using the free market to organize economic activity. For grades 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...

There are a number of physical properties that are useful for the good we use as money to possess. In this lesson students will explore...

This activity helps students understand the trade-offs which must be made in economic decision-making. There are costs and benefits for...

This video explains how taxation: (i) reduces economic welfare by increasing the price consumers must pay for goods, (ii) reduces the net...

An impactful take on the Public Goods problem of market imperfection. Be sure to pair with clips of the films 'Armageddon' (1998, Rated...

The main purpose behind this schematic is training in cause and and effect thinking. It can be used for any social studies topic. In...

This activity is designed to give students practice in analyzing the effects of changes in aggregate demand and supply on the levels of...

An exercise to help students understand the differences between Traditional, Market, and Command economic systems and how each operates....

Note: Although this text states in its introduction that it replaces "Economics: A One Semester Course" (1982), that earlier publication...

Celebrated economic historian Dr. Stephen Davies recounts economic growth over the past 200 years (a 10-fold increase in average global...

A video demonstrating how market prices usefully summarize relevant economic information that would be unobtainable to market actors by...

Winning examples of 'Rockonomics' economics song contests. Because economics rocks, obviously. In Da Market Oligopoly Baby All Star...