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With its, emerging middle class, its new markets, and a new emphasis on increasing its technology base, where is China going to fit in the world economy?

Imagine that you've just graduated from college and have been offered a position with a firm in New York City. You can't wait to start living in your own apartment. Your Aunt Bernice, who lives in Brooklyn Heights, has offered you a place to stay while you look for a place to begin liv…

In this lesson, students recreate the relative income inequalities of real countries with a hands-on activity and work in jigsaw cooperative learning groups to make connections between income inequality and other socioeconomic variables.

In this lesson, students evaluate income inequality in the United States and play a short board game to understand the difficulties of tackling this issue.

Students learn about the money supply and that it can affect the value of money. Students investigate this in the 1896 presidential election (Bryan vs. McKinley, Free Silver vs. Gold Standard) and examine a political cartoon that depicts how some people felt about this issue. Students …

In this lesson, students learn about the importance of energy costs when considering household budgeting decisions. They also consider the role of US government agencies like the FTC and the EPA in providing information to consumers.

This personal finance lesson discusses the costs of credit in a manner that helps students calculate those costs and integrate them in short- and long-term decisions.

In this lesson, you will learn about substitute goods. You will have choices to make in your role as a shopper. In making these choices, you will decide whether you are willing to accept one good as a substitute for another or not. Are you willing to make substitutions at the grocery store…

Students compare the economic costs and benefits of helping people who are experiencing housing insecurity and consider the ethical implications.

Hot debate and arguments galore whirl around this question: "Which economic approach is the most efficient and fair to resolve utility issues surrounding the use of common or public property?" This lesson will explore, examine and analyze this perplexing question by engaging in a…