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Falling Leaves, Crowded Trails: The Tragedy of the Commons 🍂As the fall leaves are turning, we're re-releasing a lesson ...
10/12/2026

Falling Leaves, Crowded Trails: The Tragedy of the Commons 🍂

As the fall leaves are turning, we're re-releasing a lesson from the archives. This lesson, What Leaf Peepers Teach Us About Common Resources, uses fall tourism to teach students about the tragedy of the commons. Students investigate potential solutions such as fees, permits, and collective action to manage access and preserve natural spaces for future generations.

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Don't miss today's Friday Double-Feature: Teach Financial Choices and Explore What GDP Reveals About the World!Buckets &...
10/09/2026

Don't miss today's Friday Double-Feature: Teach Financial Choices and Explore What GDP Reveals About the World!

Buckets & Budgets: Sorting Financial Choices:
Students sort 26 real-world scenarios into four buckets: Saving, Investing, Spending, and Gambling. The scenarios come from part-time jobs, sports, fitness, and college athletes’ NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) earnings. Along the way, students examine how emotions, peer pressure, and social media hype push decisions toward impulse, and why delayed gratification pays off.

Visualizing GDP and Standards of Living with Gapminder Tools:
Looking for a fresh way to teach GDP that gets students out of the textbook and into real-world data and application? This lesson uses Gapminder's amazing interactive tools to let students compare countries across decades and see how GDP per capita connects to life expectancy, child mortality, and family size. It's a ready-to-use, hands-on way to turn an abstract number into something students can see, question, and discuss.

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Just in time for the new social media movie, The Social Reckoning, we’ve got a brand-new Economic Marvels: The Economics...
10/07/2026

Just in time for the new social media movie, The Social Reckoning, we’ve got a brand-new Economic Marvels: The Economics of Social Media!
How do platforms that are free to use create trillions of dollars in value, and make their founders some of the richest people in the world?
Students will explore the economics behind the scroll, including network effects, economies of scale, consumer surplus, competition, entrepreneurship, and innovation. They’ll discover why getting big matters, why it’s so hard for new platforms to break through, and how entrepreneurs can become incredibly wealthy while consumers capture much of the value their innovations create.
Likes, follows, feeds, and some serious economics.
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Congratulations to our September national competition of Economics Club winner!The winning submission came from an Econo...
10/05/2026

Congratulations to our September national competition of Economics Club winner!

The winning submission came from an Economics Club student of advisor Sherri Dallaire (University of Alaska Fairbanks) in the September “Purposeful Human Action” photo competition!

The student’s own reflection captures the purposeful action behind the winning photo: “My brother’s idea started with a simple goal: turn an ordinary pile of winter snow into something we could actually use. When the pyramid became too tall to keep building by hand, I came up with a ladder-and-sled system so we could keep going, replacing the less satisfying option of stopping with months of teamwork, problem-solving, and persistence that resulted in a massive snow structure we built ourselves.”

Purposeful human action is the economic principle that people act to move from a less satisfactory situation toward a more satisfactory one. Because our time and resources are limited, every purposeful action involves making choices about how best to achieve the outcome we value.

Congratulations on an excellent showcase of real-world economics!

Last Call - Election Economics and The Affordability CrisisDon't miss out. Join Professors Matthew Rousu (Susquehanna Un...
10/05/2026

Last Call - Election Economics and The Affordability Crisis

Don't miss out. Join Professors Matthew Rousu (Susquehanna University) and Art Carden (Samford University) live on October 6 for a sharp look at why affordability remains such a challenge for Americans, and what regulatory barriers, productivity growth, and AI have to do with it.

Grab your ready-to-use lessons and fresh classroom ideas before the seats fill up.

Tuesday, October 6 | 7-8 PM ET (4-5 PM PT)

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Don't miss this week's Friday Double Feature!Economics: Think Like an EconomistDo you think the government would do a be...
09/25/2026

Don't miss this week's Friday Double Feature!

Economics: Think Like an Economist
Do you think the government would do a better job running your local grocery store? This new lesson has students exploring how markets respond to food deserts (areas with no access to fresh groceries), tackling a current event many of them are already following: New York City's public grocery stores. Along the way, they'll dig into subsidies, socialism, and incentives, then wrap up on a high note by brainstorming their own solutions to grocery store shortages.

Personal Finance: Money Myths - Can Wealth Help Society?
Is wealth just a sign of greed? This lesson pushes back on that assumption, teaching students about capital, innovation, and entrepreneurship. They'll learn key vocabulary through a matching game, distinguish productive wealth from unproductive wealth, and consider how entrepreneurs benefit society.

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Don't miss our latest Monday Morning Economist Lesson! The Fed Is Back in the News: Classic MME Lesson Explains WhyThis ...
09/21/2026

Don't miss our latest Monday Morning Economist Lesson! The Fed Is Back in the News: Classic MME Lesson Explains Why

This week, we're bringing back a classic Monday Morning Economist lesson. With interest rates dominating headlines again, it couldn't be more timely.

In Part 2, students test their understanding with five questions on the Fed's structure and independence. They reflect on how rising interest rates would affect a real decision in their own lives by simulating buying a car or a house.

In Part 3, students see how the Fed's decisions show up in their own wallet. They look up current auto loan rates by credit tier, run the numbers through a real loan calculator, and compare monthly payments and total interest across different APRs.

With interest rate hikes back in the news, this is the perfect moment to revisit why the Fed is built the way it is.

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This week's Economic Marvels hits the road to explore the economics or the World’s Largest Truckstop! More than 70% of U...
09/16/2026

This week's Economic Marvels hits the road to explore the economics or the World’s Largest Truckstop! More than 70% of U.S. freight moves by truck, connecting the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and countless products we use every day to communities across the country. But keeping America moving takes more than trucks and highways, it takes an incredible network of workers, entrepreneurs, businesses, and logistics working together. At Iowa 80, we’ll see how one family turned the needs of truckers into an entrepreneurial marvel through innovation, customer service, and voluntary exchange. Buckle up, because this lesson will give you a whole new appreciation for the truckers, businesses, and unseen economic coordination that keep our economy rolling.

🏈 This week's Economic Marvels is going to tackle some serious business! The NFL isn't just America's favorite Sunday ob...
09/09/2026

🏈 This week's Economic Marvels is going to tackle some serious business! The NFL isn't just America's favorite Sunday obsession, it's a 250 billion dollar economic machine running plays you've probably never noticed. Why are quarterbacks paid so much, why do losing teams get the best draft picks, and why would competing teams actually agree to share billions of dollars in revenue? 💰 This lesson goes behind the scenes to discover how entrepreneurship, innovation, and the principles of a market economy help make the NFL a billion dollar economic powerhouse. Get ready to kick off your economic thinking and see America’s most popular sports league in a whole new way!

🎉 Economic Marvels is BACK!This year, we’re thrilled to partner with Dr. Matthew Rousu, Dean of the Sigmund Weis School ...
08/31/2026

🎉 Economic Marvels is BACK!

This year, we’re thrilled to partner with Dr. Matthew Rousu, Dean of the Sigmund Weis School of Business at Susquehanna University, whose creative and insightful videos bring economics and business to life for students!

🎒 Check out our latest, The Economics of Back to School
🏈 Explore The Economics of the NFL, coming next week!

Each Economic Marvel comes packed with FREE, ready-to-use classroom resources:

✅ Engaging, well-designed slide deck
✅ Ready-to-use Nearpod
✅ Student edition
✅ Edpuzzle activity
✅ Teacher answer key
✅ And much more!

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