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This video teaches the concepts of Budget Deficits and Public Debt. If taxes collected are less than the money spent in a given year, the government has a budget deficit. When a budget deficit occurs, the government borrows the mo...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Business Cycles. The pattern in which economies have periods of recession and then also periods of economic expansion or recovery is known as the business cycle.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Economic Growth. Economic growth refers to the ability of the economy to increase its total real output or real GDP, or its real output per person.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Employment and Unemployment. Employment refers to people who have jobs while unemployment refers to people who wish to work but cannot find jobs.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Fiscal Policy. Fiscal policy refers to how government taxing and spending policy can be used to influence the macroeconomy.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country, usually measured over a year.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Inflation, which is an increase in the average price level in the economy.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve. Monetary policy involves regulating the money supply, banks and the overall financial system. Monetary policy is conducted by a central bank, which in the...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Real GDP vs. Nominal GDP.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Competition and Market Structures. In the context of markets, competition refers to the situation when producers would each like to sell their goods or services to the same customers. The great be...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
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.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Elasticity of Demand. Price elasticity of demand is the way of measuring how much quantity demanded will change in response to a change in price.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are willing to risk their own resources in order to sell them for financial gain or profits. They are successful when they provide consumers with goods and services th...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Government Failures and Public-Choice Analysis. In the real world, government failure may occur so that government decisions do not represent the majority. Public-choice analysis is the branch of...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Income Distribution. Income distribution refers to how the total income earned ends up divided over members of the economy.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Market Failures. There are certain well-recognized conditions under which market failure occurs; this means either that a market transaction affects third parties not involved in the transaction o...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
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.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
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.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Producers. Producers use scarce resources to produce goods and services which they offer to sell to consumers.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Profit. Profit is income received for entrepreneurial skills or risk taking and is calculated by subtracting a firm's costs of producing a good or service from the revenues received from selling t...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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