Covers the reasons for international trade and includes the major components of international commerce: trading models, balance of payments issues, advantages and disadvantages of international trade, tariffs, subsidies, quotas, trading blocks and the GATT treaty. More Details

Includes material on natural resources, needs and wants, economic scarcity, free goods, resource use, factors of production, producer goods and consumer goods, rationing by vouchers, and examples of opportunity cost. More Details

Includes material on what is meant by the term "market," competition, how an auction market sets price, monopoly, oligopoly, price wars and cartels, and government intervention. More Details

This program includes material on people at work, how living standards increase, specialization in all factors of production, the benefits and disadvantages of specialization. More Details

Includes material on barter, commodity money, coins, early forms of bank notes and checks, opening and operating a bank account, simple bank balance sheets, borrowing money and its effects, the money supply, the effect of increasing the money supply, hyperinflation and more. More Details

Defines the difference between the public and private sectors and what factors determine the mix between them within national, state and local economies. Explains why certain enterprises tend to be public and how political factors will help determine the ownership of certain enterprises. More Details

Shows a variety of models, what variables constitute different models, how they are constructed and how they give us insight into the economy. Supply, output, produce, capital, consumption and gross national product are some of the variables in the models discussed. More Details

Using examples from a competitive seafood market and a monopolistic ferry service, this program shows the difference between elastic and inelastic demand. It also plots the graphs that quantify the relative gain or loss in revenue from price increases or decreases in each situation. More Details

This program demonstrates how to plot simple supply and demand curves and other factors that might effect the curves by using real life examples. More Details

Includes reasons for changes in scale that are usually from small to large, the virtues and limitations of each scale, input-output diagrams, and a price and cost comparison between a dairy and a supermarket, as well as types of internal and external economies of scale. More Details

This award winning new series, hosted by Kwame Jackson (The Apprentice), features actual teens and twenty somethings developing the money smarts and workplace skills they will need to achieve their goals. From preparing a budget to what it takes to start one's own business, this series features real people in real-life situations that demonstrate the basic concepts of personal finance, entrepreneurship and the corporate world of high finance. More Details

This series introduces students to economic ideas, illustrating them with actual examples from private and public spheres. Each program has a detailed guide with learning exercises. More Details