AP Economics: 11 September 2009

Review from yesterday:

Class policies: textbooks, grading, syllabus, HW, email procedure, class participation, contact info, and web site resources:

wiki page:

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"Student Introduction" at:
http://gmicksmithsocialstudies.blogspot.com/2009/09/student-introduction.html

Email the introduction directly to me at: gmsmith@shanahan.org; never post personal information online.

Also, you may have heard about the "Broken Window Fallacy:" http://gmicksmithsocialstudies.blogspot.com/2009/08/ap-economics-broken-window-fallacy.html

In-class new material: "The Story of Money."

If not covered in class review the following material by Monday.

There are economic references on games that may be applicable:
Civilization IV incorporates economic theory and discussions for gamers: http://gmicksmithsocialstudies.blogspot.com/2009/08/ap-economics-civilization.html

As we have seen, class content and material is available online, e.g., on scarcity:
http://www.fte.org/teachers/programs/rightstart/curriculum/scarcityandopportunitycost.html

Scarcity will be our first in-class lesson.