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VIDEO: What If There Were No Prices? - GRADE 10-12
A video explaining how market prices aggregate information across the entire economy, allowing market actors to make rational decisions...
Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: I, Pencil - GRADE 10-12
A video explaining Leonard E. Read's 1958 essay "I, Pencil", which describes the seeming miracle of economic cooperation brought about by...
Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: Should Hawaii Abolish Zoning? - GRADE 10-12
A discussion around some of the pitfalls associated with zoning, and how it increases house prices. Restoring development right to...
Jan 15, 2013
LESSON PLAN: Economic Coordination and the Free Market - GRADE 10-12
Lesson plan demonstrating the advantages of using the free market to organize economic activity. For grades 10-12.
Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: Why Housing in Tokyo Is So Affordable - GRADE 10-12
Greater Tokyo is considered the world's largest city with a population exceeding 37 million residents, and yet its housing costs are a...
Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: Tax Revenue and Deadweight Losses - GRADE 11-12
This video explains how taxation: (i) reduces economic welfare by increasing the price consumers must pay for goods, (ii) reduces the net...
Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: Traditional, Market, and Command Economic Systems - GRADE 11-12
An exercise to help students understand the differences between Traditional, Market, and Command economic systems and how each operates....
Jan 15, 2012
VIDEO: What Made the Modern World? - GRADE 11-12
Celebrated economic historian Dr. Stephen Davies recounts economic growth over the past 200 years (a 10-fold increase in average global...
Jan 15, 2012
VIDEO: What Do Prices Know That You Don't? - GRADE 11-12
A video demonstrating how market prices usefully summarize relevant economic information that would be unobtainable to market actors by...
Jan 15, 2012
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