This article discusses how two entrepreneurs went to New York City to see what was "hot," and brought those ideas to a hungry Pittsburgh region. (02/18/1997)

This news article discusses how stores at an Australian shopping mall colluded in order to drive out a new competitor, along with reasons given by the judge. (Dec 19, 2004)

This article argued that Microsoft was becoming a monopoly in the robotics industry by supplying software as a general platform that all forms of robotics could use. (June 20, 2006)

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...

El Paso Independent School District in El Paso Texas created this Economics text for its high school course using OER, CC, and public domain content from a variety of sources by educators in the district. The course is aligned to the...

Read about the economic ideal of perfect competition.

Learn about the economy in Austria at this site. This page is easy to read and understand and provides good information about the structure of the Austrian market economy.

Learn about the economy in Austria at this site. This page is easy to read and understand and provides good information about the structure of the Austrian market economy.

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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Have you ever wanted to create your own business but thought it would be too hard? This site has put together resources to help you get started with your own business.

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.

The economy of the English Colonies was tied to the homeland economy, which was based on the principle of mercantilism. The belief that a nations' wealth was determined on the power of its independent, fully self-sufficient economy...