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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.
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Economics Online for Teachers, Part 2 (EOFT2)
Teacher Economics – The Federal Reserve (TE-FR)
Course dates: January 12 – March 15, 2016
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.
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Hot Topic: Gas Prices ?!?
Moaning about the rising price of oil and gasoline has become part of our daily routine. We expect rising gas prices because . . . . Well, because, in our experience, that’s what gas prices do. But then, they didn’t! The price of gasoline began falling last summer . . . and it kept falling and kept falling – until the national average price in January was $2.05/gallon. #HowCanThatBe? Use the economic way of thinking and Economic Reasoning Propositions 3&4 to figure it out.
Hot Topic: Chocapocalypse?!
The potential for a “chocapocalypse” isn’t just advertising hype. Take a walk through the store and check out the price of chocolate. The boxes and bags – and even good old chocolate chips – are pretty pricey. (And, just sayin’, chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate chips . . . )
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…
Hot Topic: Captain Phillips: Pirate Economics
Economics in the movies! Ripped from the big screen just in time for Halloween! Check out “Captain Phillips: Pirate Economics.” Our latest hot topic uses the economic way of thinking (ERPs #1&2) to explain how getting in a tiny fishing boat and traveling 200 miles across a sea patrolled by the U.S. Navy to attack a cargo ship might actually be a rational choice rather than just plain craziness.