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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
Coming Soon
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. Lesson
topics addressed include:
- What is poverty and who are the poor?
- What is capitalism?
- Degrees of market competition
- Property rights and the rule of law
- Incentives that generate invention and innovation
- Incentives that promote social cooperation
The international focus of the lessons is enhanced by case
studies drawn from such diverse locations as China, Vietnam,
Peru, Argentina, and Uganda. In the interactive tradition
of the FTE, the lessons employ a variety of teaching strategies
from direct instruction to out-of-your-seat simulations.
Workshops begin in January, 2004. Check in the fall for workshop
dates and locations.
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