13 results found
Do I Have What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur--and is My Community Ready?
Entrepreneurship is one of the foundations of a dynamic market economy as entrepreneurs are the risk takers and the visionaries who help bring new and innovative ideas to the marketplace. This lesson introduces the concept of entrepreneurship and its depth and breadth in a region.
Economic Systems Infographic Activity
Use this worksheet with questions and activities to reinforce the key concepts associated with command and market economies featured in the infographic.
Podcast: Economic Growth
Have you encountered mobile payment systems like mobile credit card readers? Pretty cool—and this kind of innovation can be good for the economy. From micro to macro, in this episode of The Economic Lowdown podcast series, we’ll take a look at economic growth—how innovation and technological progress can make things happen for the economy over time by organizing the factors of production to be, well, more productive.
Fed Centennial Lesson: Defining Moments in Federal Reserve System History: 1907-1935
This lesson presents a history of Federal Reserve events and milestones from 1907 to 1935. Defining events are highlighted by a readers' theater. Students then complete a handout, centennial Journal, and essay over the Federal Reserve.
Page One Economics: What Are the Ingredients for Economic Growth?
Is there a recipe for economic growth? Perhaps some Miracle-Gro for the economy? If only it were that easy. While the exact recipe is a mystery, economists have identified some of the key ingredients. The September 2013 Page One Economics Newsletter discusses the role that economic institutions play in fostering long-term economic growth.
The Great Inflation Online Course for Consumers
In this course, superhero Jack of All Trades and his sidekick Andy are confronted by a villain that threatens to disrupt society and rob the world of the certainty people have come to expect. And this dastardly villain is…Inflation. Jack and Andy time travel to the period known as The Great Inflation to discover the truth about inflation. With the help of Dr. Equilibrium, professor of economics, they learn that inflation is the result of too much money chasing too few goods and that the Federal Reserve System plays a key role in maintaining stable prices.
Feducation: Money and Inflation
How are the money supply and inflation related? And what does the Federal Reserve have to do with this relationship? This video reviews the functions of money, features an interactive auction that demonstrates the relationship between the money supply and inflation, then utilizes a simple equation to show how changes in the money supply affect the economy. The video also describes how the Fed uses monetary policy to achieve its dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability.
What is the Purpose of the Federal Reserve System?
Former Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, shares fundamental information about the purpose, structure and goals of the Federal Reserve System.
Production Possibilities
Students develop the production possibilities frontier model while discussing the value of models in general in explaining complex ideas. They see what movement along the production possibilities curve entails - on both the constant-cost curve and a bowed curve indicating increasing costs. They discuss ways a society can consume beyond the limits of its production possibilities through specialization and trade, as well as through an increase in resources, capital investment, and technological advance.
GDP and Pizza Online Course for Teachers and Students
A two-day, online course designed to help students in civics, economics and other social studies classes grasp the challenging economic content—and to explain why these topics are important for citizens to understand.