Learning Resource Slides
The following downloads will guide your efforts to learn about various economic topics, concepts and applications featured in the primer Common Sense Economics (St. Martin’s, 2016). Download and use them to take notes. They will help you combine common sense with basic principles of economics to understand and explain how the world works from the perspective of economists.
- Part 1 Twelve Key Elements of Economics –
PPTX (2016) | PDF (2016) or PPTX (2010) | PDF (2010)
- Part 2 Seven Major Sources of Economic Progress –
PPTX (2016) | PDF (2016) or PPTX (2010) | PDF (2010)
- Part 3 Ten Elements of Economic Thinking about the Role of Government –
PPTX (2016) | PDF (2016) or PPTX (2010) | PDF (2010)
- Part 4 Twelve Key Elements of Practical Personal Finance –
PPTX (2016) | PDF (2016) or PPTX (2010) | PDF (2010)
- Module A Demand, Supply, Dynamic Change, and Price Controls – PPTX | PDF
- Module B GDP, Inflation, and Unemployment – PPTX | PDF
- Module C Fiscal and Monetary Policy – PPTX | PDF
- Module D The Economics of the Great Depression and Great Recession – PPTX | PDF
- Module E Economics, Work, and Happiness – PPTX | PDF
- Module F Economics, Markets, and Morality – PPTX | PDF
- Module G The Economics of Poverty – PPTX | PDF
- Module H The Economics of the Environment – PPTX | PDF
- Module I Smart Choices for Earning More Income PPTX | PDF
- Module J Smart Choices for Managing Credit – PPTX | PDF
- Module K Smart Choices for Saving and Investing – PPTX | PDF
- Module L Smart Choices for Insurance – PPTX | PDF