Table of Contents


	Contents
	Introduction 1 - What is Economics? Activity 1-1: Economics, Ecology and Ethics Theme: Considering a definition of economics for the 21st century that includes ecology and ethics Activity 1-2: A Royal Meeting Theme: The divorce between economics and other disciplines such as politics, psychology, and philosophy; the possibility for overcoming this fragmentation 2 - Economic Systems Activity 2-1: A Day in the Life Theme: Comparative values of subsistence, capitalist, socialist and Buddhist economic systems Activity 2-2 The Island Game Theme: Value choices and problem solving in the creation of an ideal economy 3 - The Market System and Consumer Culture Activity 3-1: Personal Consumer Choices Theme: Careful recordings and analysis of students’ own consumer choices Activity 3-2: Advertisement Watch Theme: The strategies of advertising and its effects Activity 3-3: Consumerism and the Consumer Society Theme: A society based on consumerism 4 - Products, the Environment and Consumer Choices Activity 4-1: The Life Cycle of Newsprint Theme: The land labor and capital that goes into making the daily newspaper and its impact on the environment Activity 4-2 Using Less Wood Theme: Alternative behavior and choices to using large quantities of wood Activity 4-3 The Economic Vote Project Theme: Researching the life cycle of a popular product and alternatives to it 5 - Businesses Practices and Competition Activity 5-1: Corporate Power Theme: Understanding highly centralized corporate capitalism Activity 5-2: In Search of Greater Profit Theme: Free Trade and the Exportation of American jobs 6 - Measuring Economic Success Activity 6-1: What Helps the GDP Theme: The GDP can benefit from personal and environmental crises and can be hurt by a rise in the quality of life Activity 6-2: Gross Production vs. Genuine Progress Theme: Other indicators exist and can be created to reflect the overall quality of life Activity 6-3: Local Indicators Theme: Measurements of local economic health and sustainable cities 7 - The Role of Government Activity 7-1: Federal Budget Game Theme: The spending priorities of the federal government Activity 7-2: Green Plans Theme: Governments that are moving towards a sustainable economy Activity 7-3: Military Conversion Theme: How closing military bases can be redeveloped sustainably 8 - Trade and the Global Economy Activity 8-1: The Global Athletic Shoe Theme: Where and how Nike shoes are made Activity 8-2: Trade Statistics, Imports and the WTO Theme: US Trade profile, limits to imports and free trade Activity 8-3: Import Substitution Theme: Considering limits to the global economy and making the economy more local
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