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Cost-Benefit Analysis

The Magic of Markets – Trade Creates Wealth

Download Magic of Markets Guide Overview: Trade is the voluntary exchange of goods and services. People engaging in trade must…

Absolute Advantage

Lesson 10: International Markets

Download EFL Lesson 10 Guide Download EFL Lesson 10 Slides Introduction In this lesson students apply the model of supply…

Budget Deficit/Surplus

Lesson 9: Money and Inflation

Download EFL Lesson 9 Guide and Slides Virtual Lesson Instructions and Slides Introduction In this lesson students learn that anything…

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Lesson 8: Setting the Rules: Costs and Benefits of Government Action

Download EFL Lesson 8 Guide Download EFL Lesson 8 Slides Introduction This lesson gives students the opportunity to apply the…

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Lesson 7: Property Rights: Is the Environment Different?

Download EFL Lesson 7 Guide Download EFL Lesson 7 Slides Introduction In this lesson students apply the tools of economic…

Competition

Lesson 6: Incentives, Innovations, and Roles of Institutions

Download EFL Lesson 6 Guide Download Lesson 6 Slides Introduction This lesson uses examples, video clips and a risk-reward mini…

Competition

Lesson 5: Labor Markets

Download EFL Lesson 5 Guide Download EFL Lesson 5 Slides Introduction The focus of this lesson is on the choices made…

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Lesson 4: Markets in Action

Download EFL Lesson 4 Guide and Slides Virtual Lesson Instructions & Slides Introduction This lesson has two goals: The first…

Competition

Lesson 3: Open Markets

Download EFL Lesson 3 Guide EFL Lesson 3 Slides Introduction In this lesson students reflect on their experience in the…

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Lesson 2: Opportunity Cost and Incentives

Download EFL Lesson 2 Guide EFL Lesson 2 Slides Introduction This lesson uses examples, videos and three mini-activities to teach…

E.R.P. #3

Lesson 1: Economic Growth and Scarcity

Download EFL Lesson 1 Guide  EFL Lesson 1 Slides Introduction In this lesson students are introduced to the concept of…

E.R.P. #3

Lesson 6: Applying the Lessons of the Soviet Union

Assessment: A Brief History of the Post Office (As Told By Grandpa McCoy) “You kids these days have it so…

Competition

Lesson 3: Incentives Matter

Concepts: People respond to incentives. Entrepreneur Innovation Profit Productivity Competition Content Standards and Benchmarks (4 and 14): Standard 4: People…

Competition

Missing Markets and Missing Prices

Lesson Overview In this activity, production ministers must allocate resources to the production of 2 products and set prices for…

E.R.P. #4

Lesson 4: Property Rights

Concepts: Property Rights Private property Incentives Collectivization Profits Tragedy of the Commons Content Standards and Benchmarks (4, 10 and 16):…

Competition

Lesson 2: Missing Markets and Missing Prices

Concepts: Markets provide information in the form of prices. Opportunity cost Prices Information costs Investment Demand and Supply Markets Competition…

Decision Making

Lesson 1: Opportunity Cost

Concepts: Opportunity Cost Scarcity Capital Goods Choice Consumer Goods Communism Content Standards and Benchmarks (1, 3 and 15): Standard 1:…

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Lesson 5: Are Disasters “A Disaster” for Lesson Planning?

download EOD lesson 5 outline (including source citations and links) Teaching About the Next Disaster The concepts, models, and analytical…