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Grades 9-12

Who Bears the Burden When a Tax Is Imposed on a Good?

In this personal finance lesson, students will learn how to determine the function values of simple functions.

Key Concepts: Demand, Markets and Prices, Roles of Government

180 mins

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Grades 9-12

Using Systems of Equations with Supply and Demand Application

In this personal finance lesson, students will learn supply and demand by utilizing a system of equations.

Key Concepts: Demand, Markets and Prices

60 mins

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Grades 9-12

Is the traditional taxicab an endangered species?

Increasingly popular ride-sharing services have attracted customers at a rate that some say endangers the cab industry. Economics correspondent Paul...

Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Demand, Elasticity of Demand…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: More part-time workers suffer instability, long hours to make ends meet

As employers seek more control over labor costs, the number of part-time jobs has soared in the post-great recession period....

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment, Income Distribution…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Artists Learn Art of Business to Brave Tough Economic Times

In the classical performing arts, more and more artists -- ever more highly skilled -- compete for fewer and fewer...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Performing Artists Compete, Move, Adapt in Tough Economy

A new report shows 45 percent of young adults who recently got a college degree are underemployed, and the next...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Is Globalization Wiping Out the American Surfboard Industry?

Economic correspondent Paul Solman reports on an American-born product hit hard by globalization: the surfboard. In Southern California, U.S.-based manufacturers...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Benefits of Trade, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: How Fine Print on Your Bills Helps Big Companies in Taking More of Your Money

Cell phone bills are up 30 percent since 2009. So are cable television bills. Big companies are inserting tiny fees...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Business Costs and Revenues, Market Structures…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Climate Change Causes Insurers to Rethink Price of Risk After Hurricane Sandy

The insurance industry looks at historical data, old and new, in order to assess the risk for potential disasters and...

Key Concepts: Insurance, Markets and Prices, Profit…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Competition and Market Structure Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Competition and Market Structures. In the context of markets, competition refers to the situation...

Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Market Structure, Market Structures…

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Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Consumers Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Consumers. Consumers are powerful in a market economy, and the economic choices of consumers...

Key Concepts: Consumers, Demand, Goods and Services…

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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Demand Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Demand. Demand refers to a relationship between price and the quantity of a good...

Key Concepts: Consumers, Demand, Elasticity of Demand…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Markets and Prices Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Markets and Prices. A market refers to a group of buyers and sellers for...

Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Demand, Market Structure…

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Grades 9-12

Price Ceilings and Floors Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Price Ceilings and Floors. A price ceiling is a legally established maximum price while...

Key Concepts: Demand, Markets, Markets and Prices…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Profit Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Profit. Profit is income received for entrepreneurial skills or risk taking and is calculated...

Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Entrepreneurs, Market Structure…

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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Supply Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Supply. Supply refers to a relationship between price and the quantity of a good...

Key Concepts: Markets, Markets and Prices, Price Ceilings and Floors…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Market Failures Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Market Failures. There are certain well-recognized conditions under which market failure occurs; this means...

Key Concepts: asymmetric information, Externalities, Market Structures…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Roles of Government Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Roles of Government. Some roles of government include protecting the environment, helping the poor...

Key Concepts: Government Failures/Public-Choice Analysis, Markets, Roles of Government

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Protecting Its Fannie: How Mortgage Giant Primed the Bubble, Covered Its Assets

As part of his Making Sen$e series, Paul Solman reports on the new book, "Reckless Endangerment," which argues that for...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Business Cycles, Credit…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Extended Interview: 99er Greg Rosen

Greg Rosen describes how he lost his savings in the Bernie Madoff scandal just months after losing his job.

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Employment and Unemployment, Investing…

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