Practice what you've learned about options available to regulate markets where the socially optimal quantity is not produced.

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. The website contains an...

A good outline of course study on the topics of monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and anti-trust legislation.

Through notes and related videos, students gain a basic understanding of market structures and the characteristics of firms that display perfect competition.

A scholarly paper written for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review looks at the causes of bank failures in the Great Depression, and how these failure rates were reflected across the country. Very detailed. [pdf]

This page provides information about the federal Open Market Committee and covers its structure, meeting schedule, minutes and current members of the FOMC.

This website describes the conditions of a "perfectly competitive" market structure, and the obstacles that the individual firm in this market will face.

This site offers economics-based newspaper headlines and asks follow-up questions based on supply and demand in a perfectly competitive market.

Testing is critical to any design, whether it be in the creation of new software or building a bridge across a wide river. Despite risking the quality of the design, the testing stage is often hurried in order to get products to market....

This site examines the relationship between a price taker and a price maker, and the market structure to which each might belong.

This site uses graphs to show how changes in demand would change a firm's output, price, and profits or losses in a monopolistically competitive market structure.

The Italianate style Old City Hall and Southern Market in Mobile was completed in 1857. This building exemplifies the 19th-century American trend toward structures that served multiple civic functions.

View a variety of television advertisements analyzing visual and verbal features and how these are combined to communicate ideas. Write a coherent essay which expresses and argues a viewpoint about a chosen marketing strategy, linking...

Through a series of resources, this tutorial investigates the characteristics of a monopoly and how to draw a cost analysis graph. Video lessons are provided to reinforce the concept.

This article compares national brands to generic brands, with respect to prices, customer satisfaction, and product differentiation.

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 the good...

Read about the economic ideal of perfect competition.

This site provides a simple and easy-to-understand definition of monopolistic competition.

This site lists the characteristics of an oligopoly, and discusses price competition, non-price competition, and price leadership.

In this lesson, 5th graders learn about the many societal structures that developed in colonial days, including the conditions for self-government in America, the free-market economy, and the slavery system. Background information for...

This site uses an example of "pushcarts on the beach" to demonstrate a monopolistically competitive market structure and how as more firms enter the market, price, quantity, and deadweight loss are all effected.

This site uses interactive graphs to show how changes in demand would change a firm's output, price, and profits or losses in a monopolistically competitive market structure.

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Understand the structure of a newly created West Germany following World War II and what the Community of Nations was designed to do. Identify the leaders of the new nation, social market society, and the Grand Coalition.