Category: FTE Blog
Where We are Wednesday – College of William and Mary
It’s a William an Mary Wednesday! We still have spaces available for both students AND teachers on this beautiful historic…
Alumni Spotlight – Ruby Au – Nashville 2011
Ruby Au, has traveled near and far. Since participating in the Economics for Leaders program at Vanderbilt in Nashville, she moved…
Alumni Spotlight – Madeleine Overturf – Chicago ’09
Madeleine Overturf is quite literally in the spotlight these days as a reporter at WBOC-TV in Sussex County. Before her…
Where We are Wednesday – UC Berkeley
Where We are Wednesday… The University of California, Berkeley! Home of the blue and gold Oski bears (blue for the…
Recent Alumni Profile – Angela Wei
Angela Wei attended Economics for Leaders last year at Rice University in Houston, TX. About her experience she says, “If…
From the Gorges of Ithaca to the Skyscrapers of Seattle…
We are proud to announce our 2017 summer sites and dates! This year we are all over the country at…
In Memory of Daniel Weinberger, EFL ‘07
It is with great sadness that we report on the passing of Economics for Leaders alum, Daniel Weinberger. Daniel attended the 2007 Skidmore College EFL program, and returned the next year for the EFL reunion in Williamsburg, VA.
Hot Topic: Ubernomics
In 4 short years, Uber brought down the taxi kings of New York City. Students examine data from medallion sales and ride sharing services, and then identify the incentives and institutions that first closed the taxi market in 1937 and then flooded it with competition in 2011.
Hot Topic: Sun Burn?
Just in time for the Paris Conference on Climate Change!
“Sun Burn?: Paying the Bill for Solar Energy” uses the economic way of thinking to examine and evaluate the rules of the game that shape development of solar energy in the United States.
In this lesson, students practice using ERPs #3&4, identifying the “rules of the game” and the incentives shaping the solar industry.