Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Elasticity in Areas Other Than Price
Elasticity also applies in labor markets and in financial capital markets.
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Markets and Prices
This video teaches the concept of Markets and Prices. A market refers to a group of buyers and sellers for a given good or service. The price is the amount of money needed to buy a particular good or service. The website contains an...
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Price Ceilings and Floors Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Price Ceilings and Floors. A price ceiling is a legally established maximum price while a price floor is a legally established minimum price. The website contains an interactive quiz and links for...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Price of Gasoline: What's Behind It?
In this lesson, students investigate the variables that contribute to the cost of gasoline. They learn that while OPEC nations do influence the price of oil and thus the price of gasoline, other factors also influence the price.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Marketing Your Business
Marketing is the activities of a company associated with buying and selling a product or service. It includes advertising, selling, and delivering products to people. In order to successfully market and sell your products and /or...
Other
T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc.: Money Market Securities [Pdf]
Site explains the full range of securities including money market and capital market instruments.
Library of Economics and Liberty
Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Agricultural Price Supports
This is a scholarly explanation of price supports. It explains why agricultural price supports are used differently by poor countries than by wealthy countries.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Socially Efficient and Inefficient Market Outcomes
Practice what you've learned about marginal social cost and marginal social benefit in this four-question exercise.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium
The actual price you see in the world is a balancing act between supply and demand.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Types of Market Oriented Environmental Tools
Read about the three main types of market-oriented regulation, including pollution charges, marketable permits, and better-defined property rights
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Price and Quantity Controls
Practice what you have learned about the effects of price and quantity controls, such as price ceilings and price floors, in a market in this five-question exercise.
Wolters Kluwer
Business Owner's Toolkit: Figuring the Costs of Setting Up Your New Business
This resource includes a worksheet that can be downloaded to aid a new business owner in determining what their startup costs will be. The article provides additional links to kinds of costs a new business owner will encounter.
Other
South Western Learning: Econ News: Price Ceilings and Price Floors
Offers a summary of when government intervention and market-determined prices are necessary to stabilize the economy. Includes an interactive quiz at the end.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Demand, Supply, and Markets
This site discusses in great detail the differences between demand, supply, and markets. Useful economic terminology is identified in bold.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Stock Market Project
Students pick a stock that they would like to follow for a period of 2 weeks. Each day they look up the stock and chart its price. At the end of the two week period they graph their data using the graphing calculator. They compare their...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Much Will College Cost Me?
Students will research the cost of college by comparing a 2-year and a 4-year institution via the Internet. Students will follow-up with a presentation and prepare a monthly budget. This lesson plan contains a financial aid component.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Monopoly
Through a series of resources, this tutorial investigates the characteristics of a monopoly and how to draw a cost analysis graph. Video lessons are provided to reinforce the concept.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Government Regulation of Industry
A course from MIT on the role of government in markets. Includes suggested readings, lecture notes, assignments and exams.
Curated OER
Bized.com: The Marketing Mix
A defintion of the marketing mix as the 4P's (price, product, promotion, place). Then it discusses other components such as Market skimming, Market penetration, product-oriented and market-oriented.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Benefits and Costs of Us Environmental Laws
Read about specific examples of environmental laws in the United States.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Factor Markets
Practice what you have learned about the supply of labor, the demand for labor, and the marginal revenue product of labor in this exercise.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium
Practice what you've learned about finding equilibrium price and quantity both intuitively and graphically in this exercise.
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Demand
This video teaches the concept of Demand. Demand refers to a relationship between price and the quantity of a good or service that consumers demand. The website contains an interactive quiz and links for related lesson plans.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Prices Are Changing
This lesson will help students to understand how markets are created by the interaction of buyers and sellers, what demand and supply are, what equilibrium price is, and how demand and supply interact with price changes.