Reviewed by
Lesson Planet
Publisher
Accepting a cow as payment for a car is not udder-ly ridiculous. A collection of 21 podcasts provide high schoolers with the lowdown on economics. Topics covered include economics, banking, monetary policy, and the role the Federal Reserve System and the federal government play in interest rate changes and in using discretionary spending to avoid an economic recession.
30 Items
Reviewed by
Lesson Planet
Collection Details
Concepts
adam smith, competition, consumers, demand, economic growth, economic indicators, economic principles, employment, externalities, factors of production, fiscal policy, goods and services, gross domestic product, inflation, market economies, monetary policy, money, opportunity cost, prices, public goods, supply and demand, the federal reserve system, deflation, demand curve, equilibrium prices, interest rates, price elasticity, recessions, supply curves, economics, the business cycle, the labor force, the unemployment rate
