Marketplace: The Trouble with Truffles
In this lesson students listen to an audio file about the scarcity of French truffles in 2004; the file explains how this scarcity affected French buy...
Grade: 6-8 9-12    Published: 07/30/2008


Marketplace: Iraq's Supply and Demand
In this lesson, students listen to an audio file about how the growing demand for workers in Iraq in May 2004 affected the job market, and how the eff...
Grade: 9-12    Published: 07/30/2008


Why does Brett Favre make $8.5 million per year?
What determines a person's salary? Why do professional athletes make so much money? People who work as firefighters, police officers or teachers are ...
Grade: 9-12    Published: 06/06/2006


China - Where will they fit in the world economy?
With its, emerging middle class, its new markets, and a new emphasis on increasing its technology base, where is China going to fit in the world econo...
Grade: 9-12    Published: 11/10/2006


Marketplace: Price Increase or Price-Gouging?
Students learn about price-gouging. Using a hypothetical post-disaster example, they will learn more about supply and demand, as well as the complexit...
Grade: 9-12    Published: 06/23/2008


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Grade: 9-12   Published: 2003
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Students examine and discuss visuals to solve an economic mystery regarding the command system of the Soviet Union.

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Grade: 9-12   Published: 2003
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Students brainstorm ways to allocate a scarce good within the classroom. Then they work with a decision-making model that helps them make a decision about this allocation by showing them how to evalu...

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Grade: 9-10   Published: 2002
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Unit 1: Lesson 1 - Making Choices
Students are introduced to the nature of choice making by confronting thorny problems individually and in groups.

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Grade: 9-12   Published: 2001
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Because the resources (such as raw materials, minerals, energy, labor, equipment, machinery, etc.) that are used to produce goods and services are limited in their availability, we cannot have all tha...

 

 
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