Robert Schenk, PhD
Cyber Economics: Supply and Demand Overview
This is a site from the St. Joseph's College with an overview of the supply and demand model. It is actually the first page of a lesson on supply and demand complete with links to more in-depth discussions including graphs and charts...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Marketplace: Iraq's Supply and Demand
In this lesson plan, students listen to an audio file about how the growing demand for workers in Iraq in May 2004 affected the job market, and how the effects of low growth in the supply of workers shaped companies' hiring practices and...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ecedweb: Explorations in Economic Supply, Part I
Examines how supply relates to economic decision making. Using the example of purchasing blue jeans, students take the role of producer to determine how many blue jeans they would supply to the market. Includes links and discussion...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Elasticity of Supply
Quantities supplied and demanded react to changes in price. Students will learn about price elasticity of demand and price elasticity of supply in this lesson. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Economics in the Headlines
Students learn how to identify headlines in the news and current events as illustrations of problems in supply and demand. Students will be linked to news sites to create their own analysis of supply and demand issues in problems facing...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity: The Four Step Process
Analyze some step-by-step examples of shifting supply and demand curves. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium
Practice finding a new equilibrium price and quantity when supply changes, demand changes, or both supply and demand are changing simultaneously.`This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Factors Change Supply?
Read about about the many factors that affect the quantity supplied. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ecedweb: Explorations in Supply, Part Ii
In this economics tutorial, you as a producer have to determine how much of a given product you should make.
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: Andersonville Prison: An Economic Microcosm
This site provides a lesson plan that investigates concepts of scarcity, economic wants, command economic systems, market economic systems, and markets and prices.
Curated OER
Market Price: Supply & Demand
This site from Wood Green School Witney explains market price. It includes graphs related to supply and demand. The explanation deals with basic economic terms establishing equilibrium market price. The site is theoretical in nature and...
Other
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: The Economics of Pro Team Sports
Great interactive baseball game that combines your knowledge of economics and pro sports trivia. After completing the nine innings, you should have a better understanding of how economics is used in everyday life.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Collecting for Fun . . . And Profit?
Art, baseball cards, coins, comic books, dolls, jewelry and stamps are just a few examples of the many things people collect. While some people collect for fun, others hope to profit. In this lesson, students explore how supply and...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Marketplace: Price Increase or Price Gouging?
Students learn about price-gouging. Using a hypothetical post-disaster example, they will learn more about supply and demand, as well as the complexities associated with price increases in a supply-constrained market.
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The Aggregate Supply Curve
"The Aggregate Supply Curve," by Baumol, William J., and Alan S. Blinder. Economics: Principles and Policy, 7th ed. Orlando, FL: The Dryden Press, 1997, pp.628-642.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Aggregate Demand Aggregate Supply (Ad As) Model
This study resource will help students understand, and create, graphs that are critical skills in macroeconomics. This article reviews the aggregate demand-aggregate supply (AD-AS) model.This resource is designed as a review for the AP...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Traditional Economies and the Inuit
The Inuit people of northern Canada provide an example of a traditional economy. For thousands of years, Inuit parents have taught their children the survival skills needed to survive in the Arctic Circle's severe climate. Students will...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Do People Want to Wear?
To stay in business, fashion merchandisers must be able to anticipate what consumers want. By looking at different retail websites, students will look to anticipate what consumers are demanding. Students will then go through the market...
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: 2.1 Factors of Production: Principles of Economics
The three factors of production-labor, capital, and natural resources. Explain the role of technology and entrepreneurs in the utilization of the economy's factors. Labor is the human effort that can be applied to the production of goods...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Deregulation and the California Utilities
"The verdict is in: California's experiment with energy deregulation is not just a mess; it's a certifiable failure, according to everyone from the state governor to the very utilities that initially backed the scheme." This is how...
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South Western Learning: Oligopoly/monopolistic Competition: Kinked Demand Curve
This South-Western College Publishing website describes a situation in which oligopolistic firms vie for competition among consumers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Equilibrium in the Ad as Model
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium. Topics include how to model a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium graphically as well as the relationship...
Other
South Western Learning: Econ News: The Market System Study Guide
South-Western College Publishing offers an outline written as a study guide for an exam, which gives basic definitions of different aspects of a market economy, graphs and examples, and sample study questions at the bottom.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Happened to Railroads?
Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral part of people's lives. In this lesson, students assume the role of detectives investigating why the rail companies...