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1. Exam Preparation:
2. AP TEST REVIEW
a. Review Site
b. Review Packet: Topics, Chapter questions, & All The Graphs (to see the graphs: Click on where an image should appear)
c. Albert: more MC help
e. Common Pitfalls
3.Teacher Video
1. ACDC ECONOMICS: Teacher: great videos
2. MJM Foodie : search on Youtube
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SEMINARS
1. Seminar: Stock Market Game
Activity 1 2 3 investment calculator Yahoo Finance (coke- get quotes) YUM! (difference between parent company & subsidiary) Mint Rules#1 Rules#2
2. Economics Challenge Old Sample Tests
3. Capital Hill Challenge Creating Young Investors, One at a Time Stock Market Game Wicked Smart Thanks Mia!: Stock Market Website
- Change in AP Credit Law
- Compulsory High School Education Open Letter to Students The Bear that Wasn't What Economics Isn't What it is Power of the Pencil
- ACDC Intro (Star Wars)
2.Kidney: Would you sell yours to pay for college?
Organ Reading #1: Steve Jobs
Reading #2 Death's Waiting List
Reading #3 Lebanese Black Market
Reading #4: A Better Way
Reading #5: Blackmarket
Reading #6: Facebook
Reading #7: Iphone
Reading #8 Message #9 Iran #10 Waiting List
Another Ethical Issue: Should Prostitution be a crime?
Economic Way of Thining: Scarcity & Choices
2. Aim To be Zero Smith King Obama
3. Scarcity Chairs Sealed Bid Prom Rebate
4. Opportunity Cost: Princple #2 Video Application Practice Road Not Taken
5. Marginal Analysis Pancakes Laundry Solutions Extension
6. Trade: Red Paper Clip
College:
Endowments Aid early Ranking Racket UIC Lottery tuition
Economists:
Friedman Krugman Nudge Activity
Chapter 2: Powerpoint uploaded above
Video: ACDC Production Possibilities Curve
A. Production Possibilities Curve
1. Production Possibilities Pre-Test
7. Nerdtown
B. Comparative & Absolute Advantage
1. Videos: MJM Foodie ACDC
3. Jamaica, Lebron, & Practice Problems
5. Economist China Comparative Advantage
C. Positive vs. Normative Economics
Summative: Chapter 1 & 2 (except Circular Flow) (see above for study material)
Articles
I. Demand & Supply
1. Demand & Supply at Brooks Basic Practice (with shifts)
2. Demand & Supply Practice Problems: Determinants
3. Equilibrium Market for Pencils Supply, Demand, Equilibrium Practice Problems Shortage or Surplus
5. War on Drugs: Narconomics Supply Side Drugs
6. Sample mc
II. Surplus: Consumer, Producer, & Total Market
1. Consumer Surplus Practice Problems
3. Graphs Leon & Fun World More MC format 06 FRQ
III. Applied Economics: Uber
7. UBER vs. Taxis: Technology Disrpuption, Rideshare Wars
Articles: Download above
Videos
3. Knowledge to Drive A London Cab
I. PRICE CONTROLS: Video
A. Price Ceiling
1. Mies Article
2. Price Control: College: YAY College: NAY
3. Practice Problems Frisbee & San Francisco
4. NY City Rent John Stossel Video
B. Price Floor
1. Min. Wage Article: Economist
2. McCaffrey FRQ
Living on Minimum Wage: Video Game Room For Debate
3. Can you live on the Minimum Wage?
5. Final Price Control Practice Problems Problem Set#2
C. Price Control Investigation Discussion Questions
II. TAXES
I. Excise Tax: Intro Practice Problems Ugly Sweater Sample Problems Soda
2. Different Types of Taxation
3. Practice FRQs: Excise Tax
ELASTICITY:
1.Intro To Elasticity Homework
3. Practice Problems #1 Total Revenue & Elastic Elastic Numbers
4. Elasticity Chart & Grid
5. Wrightway Economics: Extension Problems: Problems & Answer Key located above
6. FRQS: Elasticity & Taxation
7. Other Elasticities
10. Elastic Cotton
11. Tax incidence Tax Incidence #2
SUMMATIVE #3: Chapters 3-7
1. Decision Making 101: Opportunity Cost
a. Economic Profit
2. Decision Making 101: Marginal Analysis
a. Thai Food
b. Nadia
c. Sam
e. Luann
a. Problems
b. Article
4. Budget Constraints
b. College Dining Halls Peapod
5. Marginal Value Per Dollar: Most Bang For Your Buck
6. EWOT
a. KIVA loans Banker to the Poor Presentations
b. Song Analysis
c. Christmas Gift Giving: Santaland Diaries Cash or Gift: Cash is Ultimate Gift The Best Present Economist Quotes
7. Review: mB=mC, Optimal Budget
a. Problem Set: Intro solutions
b. Samantha
I. Production Function
A. Welcome Back
2. Jacob Lawrence Painting Secret to a Long Life As Robots Grow Smarter Missouri Flooding
B. Production Function: Marginal & Total Product
2. Marginal & Total Product Practice Problems
4. Why does Beyonce have a team of musicians/ dancers and I teach alone?
II. Firm Costs : Study guide
2. Practice Problems #10PDF #10 Word Profit FRQ Review Chapter 11 Practice Problems
3. Solutions: Chapter 11 Solutions: Pretest&FRQ
III. LRATC
1. Walmart: Friend or Foe
World is Flat The Unwinding : cash in while you can
2. Should Brooks Expand?: apply LRATC
3. Practice Problems: Problem #16 FA
IV. Disruption: What does it mean?
1. Robot & AI: Video Article
2. Introducing Carrot
3. Bad day for Uber
4. Amazon: Truth Behind the Click Reading Packet Task They Claim, I argue
1. a. Pre-Assessment b. EWOT: Marginal Analysis & the Law
2. 4 types of Market
a. Market vs. Firm b. Is this PC?
c. Why airlines want to make you suffer? Posner & Baby Sale MJ & Taxes Richest People Levitt Selling Sex
3. Perfect Competition: Who is happier: the producer or the consumer?
a. Simulation Market Snow Cones Exit Slip
b. Practice Problems #1 #2 Reflect Economic consultants
c. In the long run
Long Run Practice Problems Welker Final Practice
e. Practice FRQ
f. Review
f. Videos:
2. Long Run Welker Long Run HF: view both videos on HF site, focus on the 2nd video
4. Pretest #2
I. MONOPOLY
1. Videos: MR/ Demand ACDC MJMfoodie Monopoly ACDC Monopoly ACDC Regulation
2. Efficiency & Equity: Does this company wield monopoly power that is unfair to society?
a. History of Monopoly Diamond Empire Eyeglasses Google NCAA Athletes Diamonds are Bull Debeers Now
b. Monopoly Detectives: Research Short Version
3. Monopolies: Model
a. Marginal Revenue & Demand ACDC Video Elasticity
b. Profit Seeking: Explain to 10 year old Practice Problems Answers
4. Regulating Monopolies: Benefits & costs of Regulation Should they?
a. Standard Oil Rockefeller Foundation Microsoft Anti-Trust Gates Foundation Problem Set PersonCorp
b. Natural Monopoly Long Run Monopoly
c. Lump Sum vs. Tax to the Firm
5. Price Discrimination Video
a. Popcorn Cost of College Practice Problems Price Discrimination Task Pat's Patriotic Tattoos
6. FRQ Practice
II. OLIGOPOLY
1. Review Handout Drug Cartels
2. Practice Problems: Intro Pizza Express Classics concept Check Practive FRQ Problem Set #2 Grades Activity Pirates Tit for Tat
3. Nuclear Weapons Statistics In the Case? Quote Tsar Bomba Cold War Iran
4. Gender & Pay: Sandberg #1 #2 Speak UP She's rarely the boss
5. Carol Rose
6. Brady Bunch Episode
7. video Games
8. Explaining 2016 Republican Primary
III. MONOPOLISTIC
1. MJMFoodie Video Questions to answer Frank Bruni Article
2. Hotelling: Levis Football Political Logos Obama Pepsi Coke Lean Forward
3. Practice Work Starbucks FRQ practice
Two videos: thanks to Symone & Jerree: Monopoly Oligopoly
I. Public Goods
1. Activity Use Figure 17.1 on pg. 478 (4 types of goods)
4. Tennessee Fire No pay, no spray Reaction
5. River Park
II. Externalities
1.MJM Foodie Video Negative Externalities Smog in China Great Garbage Patch Tainted Air Hoy No Circular
2. Pollution & Coase Theorem Jerks Tragedy of the Commons Moose
3. Pegovian Positive Externality Tax: Negative Externality
4. Practice Problems: a. 2008:do #2 Answer Key b. 2010: do #3 Answer Key c. 2011#3 Key d. Practice Problems MC/FRQ
5. Mr. Plumbean (download section): toondo bitstrips
7. World is Flat
8. More Sex is Safer Sex (download section)
III. Factor Market: Demand For Labor =MRP= VMPL= (Price(MR) x MP)
1. Simulation: Who decides wage rates? (High School Economics: 3rd Edition) Cupcake Wars Preview Problems
2. Vocabulary Chart Shuffle Wrightway
3. Factor Market: Supply & Demand
a. Essentials Video MJM Foodie Shifting Curves
b. Practice Problems #1 Practice Problem #2 FRQ Practice: 2010 Form B, then 2010 Additional Problems
4. Factor Market: Monopsony
a. MJM Foodie Practice Problem FRQ Practice #1 Article
5. Cost Minimization: Least Cost Rule & Profit Maximization Rule
a. PPT:Robot & Man Paul Solomon 3 Combo Set
6. Assessment Preparation: Monospony Handout AP questions & FRQ
7. Factor Market: Work & Wages
a. Compensating Differentials Did you Know? Ken Robinson & Education
8. Wage GAP
Choose one wage gap (GENDER, RACE, or CEO) to study. Write a one page reflection on the what, why, and what should be done next. Must cite 4 sources – mine or your own. Topics/sources
b. Gender Gap:
i. Everything you need to know. .
ii. John Oliver
iii. A Brand New World ( how one graduating class from Stanford had different opportunities based on technology and gender, discusses the start of the internet)
iv. AAUW
v. African American women & leadership
vi. Times article
c. Race Pay Gap
i. Minding the Racial Wage Gap (prejudice in hiring, wages) - U Chicago research
ii. Racial Wealth Gap: Urban Institute video
iii. Money & Black Power: Essence Magazine
iv. Black Names: a resume burden?
v. Freakonomics on names, hiring
vi. Interaction of race & gender on wages
vii. Does race or gender matter more to your paycheck? (Harvard Business Review)
viii. Times Opinion: Kristof
d. CEO Pay
i. One company's new minimum wage: 70000 a year
ii. Daily show-- Justified Compensation
iii. Why you should care that IBM's CEO is overpaid
iv. The wrong people care about CEO pay for the wrong reason
v. CEO and the next presidential cycle
IV. Income Distribution
a. Lorenz Curve & Gini Coeffecient Practice Problems You make the Rules Chairs of Inequality
b. Inequality for All (on Netflix)
V. International Trade
1. Overview
2. Sweatshops : Article Video In Praise. . . Sweatshops still make . . .
V. Summative: Chapter 16-19
1. AP Review:
a. Top of the page: #3
b. FRQ (in download):2 powerpoints: Cracking the FRQ, FRQ mistakes
2. Final Exam: Graduation: Steve Jobs or Mother Theresa
3. Post Exam
A. Inequality
B. Money, Class, & Happiness: Making it in the US Can Money Buy Happiness Subjective Well Being Middle Class in Each City
Social Mobility & Location What Wealth does to your Soul
C. Careers: BLS or NACE Record starting salary and job outlook for 2-3 careers you can potentially see yourself doing.
D. Budgeting
E. Innovation Incubation
F. Survey: Aim to Be Zero Self- Assessment Class Survey