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- Activity: Food Truck Challenge – A Supply and Demand Activity
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- Socialism: Myths vs Realities
- ACTIVITY 1 – A Survey: 4 Countries and You
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- ACTIVITY 6 – Will the Real Socialism Please Step Forward?
- Lesson 1: Socialism Defined
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- The Magic of Markets – Trade Creates Wealth
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- Activity 1: Property Rights and U.S. History – Jamestown Simulation
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- Activity 6: Show Me the Money! A Fractional Reserve Banking Simulation
- Activity 7: The Great Depression – A Family’s Choices
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- Lesson 1: The Market for Moving People to America
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- Introduction to The Economics of Disasters
- Lesson 1 Activity: Are Disasters Good for the Economy?
- Visual #1: Economic Growth from Hurricanes Could Outweigh Costs
- Visual #2: Or “I Can Answer That Question With Only ? Clues!”
- Visual #3: What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen?
- Visual #4: The Broken Window Fallacy
- Visual #5: Human Beings Are the Ultimate Resource
- Visual #6: Modern “Translation” of Bastiat
- Visual #7: Student Handout Clues
- Lesson 1: Are Disasters Good for the Economy?
- Lesson 2: When Disaster Strikes, What Can Markets Do?
- Lesson 2 Activity: The Market for Thingamajigs – Price Gouging?
- Lesson 2 Activity: Nobody Knows Everything
- Lesson 3: When Disaster Strikes, What Can Government Do?
- Lesson 4: When Disaster Strikes, What Can We Do?
- Lesson 5: Are Disasters “A Disaster” for Lesson Planning?
- Addendum to Introduction – Catalog of Disasters
- Economics, Water Use, and the Environment
- Lesson 4 Activity: The Impact of Water Law on People’s Choices
- Lesson 4: Water Law – The ‘Rules of the Game’ Matter
- Lesson 5 Activity: M&Ms and Lemonade
- Lesson 5: The Tragedy of the Commons
- Lesson 7 Activity: The Pearl River – Water In or Water Out?
- Lesson 7: The Future of Water – Crisis or Cooperation?
- Introduction to Economics, Water Use and the Environment
- Lesson 1: When Is a Basketball a Substitute for Water?
- Lesson 1 Activity: How Much Water Do You Need?
- Lesson 1: When Is a Basketball a Substitute for Water?
- Lesson 2: Waste Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- Lesson 2 Activity: Diamonds & Water – A Question of Value
- Lesson 2: Waste Is In the Eye of the Beholder
- Lesson 3: Yours, Mine, Ours: The Rules of Ownership
- Lesson 3 Activity: The Rules of Ownership
- Lesson 3: Yours, Mine, Ours: The Rules of Ownership
- Lesson 4: Water Law – The ‘Rules of the Game’ Matter
- Lesson 4 Activity: Fishermen and Farmers – Conflict and Water Law
- Lesson 4: Fishermen and Farmers
- Lesson 6: Would You Swim There?
- Lesson 6 Activity: Marginal Analysis – Would You Swim There?
- Lesson 6: Would You Swim There?
- Lesson 7 – The Future of Water – Crisis or Cooperation?
- Lesson 7: The Future of Water – Crisis or Cooperation?
- Environment and the Economy
- Lesson: The Economic Perspective
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- Lesson: Incentives Change With the Rules of the Game
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- Lesson: Using Markets to Reduce Pollution
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- The Environment Is An Economic Good
- Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?
- Historical Overview (2012 update)
- Lesson 1 Part 1: What is Poverty and Who are the Poor?
- Lesson 1, Part 1: Defining Terms – Poverty and Capitalism
- Lesson 1 Activity: What is Poverty? A KWL Exercise
- Lesson 1 Activity: What is Poverty and Who are the Poor? A WebQuest
- Lesson 1 – Defining Terms: Poverty and Capitalism, Part 2
- Lesson 1 Part 2: Capitalism – Institutional Building Blocks
- Lesson 1, Part 2 Activity: Will the Real Capitalism Please Stand Up?
- Lesson 2: Property Rights and the Rule of Law
- Lesson 2 Activity: You’re the Economist
- Lesson 3: Beneficiaries of Competition
- Lesson 3 Activity: The More, the Merrier
- Lesson 4: How Incentives Affect Innovation
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