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Ethics, Economics and Social Issues Webinar Series

Professional Development

Grades 6-8, 9-12, Higher Education

Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues: Should I Join the Sweatshop Boycott?

In this lesson, students study primary sources to learn about the choices of young women who are considering working in...
Objective:

After completing this lesson teachers will be able to:

  • Analyze changes in living standards in different regions over time.
  • Create and support an argument for or against a sweatshop boycott using primary and secondary sources.
Key Concepts: Comparative Advantage, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Division of Labor/Specialization, Economic Institutions, Employment and Unemployment, Goods and Services, Human Capital, Incentives, Income, Markets and Prices, Opportunity Cost, Producers, Productive Resources, Productivity, Scarcity, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

Grades 9-12, Higher Education

Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues: Should We Allow a Market for Transplant Organs?

In this economics lesson, students will analyze and debate the ethical considerations for dealing with a shortage of transplant organs.
Objective:

After completing this lesson teachers will be able to:

  • Compare and contrast the three ethical frameworks to help eliminate the shortage of transplant organs
  • Critique at least two current methods to allocate kidneys (donation only or an open market)
  • Select and support a particular method to allocate a scarce resource such as kidneys using the economic way of thinking together with the ethical frameworks discussed in this lesson

Grades 9-12

Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues: How Does Information and Ethics Impact Decision Making?

In this economics lesson, students will play the role of a medical professional or patient to see how information and...
Objective:

After completing this lesson teachers will be able to:

  • Investigate how access to information can impact a person’s decision making.
  • Explain how asymmetric information can affect someone’s fiduciary responsibility.
Key Concepts: Competition, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentives, Markets and Prices, Opportunity Cost

Grades 9-12

Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues: Do Businesses have a Social Responsibility?

Students will participate in a simulation and discussion to explore the role businesses can or should have in their communities.
Objective:

After completing this lesson teachers will be able to:

  • Compare and contrast views on the social responsibility of business.
  • Evaluate the responsibilities of business.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentives

Grades 9-12, Higher Education

Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues: Is Efficiency Ethical?

Efficiency is when a choice brings you the most possible good along with the least possible bad. But the question...
Objective:
After completing this lesson teachers will be able to:
  • Describe how efficiency and ethics relate.
  • Explain how conflicting ethical visions can make economic analysis difficult.
  • Integrate ethical thinking into marginal analysis.

 

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentives, Income, Income Distribution, Opportunity Cost, Public-Choice Analysis