Category: Hot Topics
Trade Wars – Economics Awakens (repost)
FTE is re-posting this article written during Trump 1.0. Much of what Professor Malek had to say about tariffs back…
Hot Topic: The US Airline Industry…Fight or Flight!?
By Greg Caskey January 18, 2018 Use this Hot Topic in the classroom! Teacher and Student Guides. “It’s time to level…
The Streamin’ Blues
What’s not to like about streaming? The music you want, wherever and whenever you want. Sounds good! But does your favorite artist think so?
Hot Topic: In a Pickle
“You’re kidding me?!” That’s what the Alaska food bank director said when Feeding America sent her a semi full of 5 gallon buckets of pickles!
Learn how the economic way of thinking helped a charity sell its way out of a pickle.
Hot Topic: Immigration 2016 !
The tools of economic reasoning can bring some much-needed critical thinking to the heated political debate over immigration policy.
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: It’s All In the Bag!
In the Bag! uses the economic way of thinking to investigate luxury markets, focusing on how firms like Hermès, Ferrari, and many elite universities use market power to restrict quantity supplied and keep prices high.
Hot Topic: Running Scared – Children Crossing the Border
Fall, 2014 (reposted Dec., 2015) Estimates of the number of unaccompanied children who tried to cross the border into the…