Exploring Topics
Complex Topics Made Simple
- Activity: Budgeting and Financial Fitness for Life
- Activity: What is Consumer Price Index (CPI)?
- Activity: College: Where I am Going to Go? By EconEdLink.org (Economic Concepts: Scarcity and Marginal Analysis)
- Activity: Demand, Supply and Adjustments to Dynamic Change
- What is a Dollar Worth? By the Federal Reserve System, Minneapolis, District 9
- Activity: The Economic Crisis of 2008: Causes and Lessons for the Future
- Activity: Fiscal Policy and Budget Deficits
- Activity: Gains from Trade Game[PDF]
- What is Globalization? A Student’s Guide to Globalization. Site managed by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- Activity: The Great Depression and Lessons Learned
- Activity: Gross Domestic Product: What It Is and How It Is Measured?
- Activity: Learning and Earning. Site mangaged by TheMint.org. (Use the site to see how higher education translates into higher earning levels, on average.)
- Activity: Monetary Policy: How Is It Conducted and How Does It Affect the Economy?
- Activity: A Property Rights Simulation[PDF]
- Activity: What Is the Unemployment Rate and How Is It Measured?
- Activity: Who Pays for Government or Private Projects and Why It Matters
Classic Readings (Overview)
- I, Pencil by Leonard Read (Audio, 16.50 minutes)
- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (Audio, 1.39 minutes)
- Unfair Competition with the Sun is a condensed, CSE version of The Petition of the Candlestick Makers by Frederic Bastiat (Audio, 7.44 minutes)
- What is Seen and What Is Not Seen by Frederic Bastiat (Audio, 18.11 minutes)
Readings Reflective of Common Sense
- Censoring Pleas for Help by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9.07 minutes)
- Creating Jobs vs. Creating Wealth by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.58 minutes)
- Comparative Advantage by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.47 minutes)
- Demand and Supply by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.34 minutes)
- The Economic Advantages of a Commitment to Liberty by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9.09 minutes)
- Energy Production versus Conservation by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.45 minutes)
- It’s the Margin that Counts by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.12 minutes)
- Markets and Freedom by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.14 minutes)
- Markets and Marginalism by Dwight Lee (Audio, 7.58 minutes)
- More on Marginalism by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.40 minutes)
- Opportunities and Costs by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.45 minutes)
- Opportunity Costs and Hidden Inventions by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9.10 minutes)
- Politics and Foreign Trade by Dwight Lee (Audio, 7.51 minutes)
- The Power of Incentives by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.19 minutes)
- Private Property and Opportunity Costs by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.22 minutes)
- Running Out of Agricultural Land by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.48 minutes)
- Sacrificing Lives for Profits by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.40 minutes)
- Social Cooperation and the Marketplace by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.44 minutes)
- Specialization and Wealth by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9.15 minutes)
