Economics of Disasters
This set of lessons looks at a variety of natural disasters – from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to Hurricane Katrina in our too-recent memory, to fears of avian flu pandemics that haunt the future – through the lens of economic analysis.
Economic Demise of the Soviet Union
These six-hour seminars provide the lesson plans and background information that enable social studies teachers to explain why the economy of the Soviet Union collapsed.
Economics of Water and the Environment
The 7 lessons focus on the following: incentives, opportunity cost (diamond/water paradox), the characteristics of propery rights, property rights & law, marginal costs/marginal benefits, and public choice.
Issues of International Trade
Trade issues occasionally dominate and are a continuing theme of the international scene: the global market, sweatshops, child labor, trade deficits, the euro, sanctions, tariffs, embargoes, and the EU, NAFTA, WTO - the seemingly endless alphabet of interest groups, treaties, organizations, and trade agreements.
Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?
With a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the Foundation for Teaching Economics is creating a high-school unit addressing the question: Is Capitalism Good for the Poor? The curriculum materials use economic reasoning in analyzing the impact—both real and potential—of capitalist institutions on the well-being of the world’s poor.