High School Economics Lesson Plans by Book

Introductory economics

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?, Maybury [Amaz] – Level 5 Year 1

• pp. 12-21
• pp. 22-30
• pp. 31-42
• pp. 43-58
• pp. 59-68
• pp. 69-81
• pp. 82-92
• pp. 93-101
• pp. 102-114
• pp. 115-127
• Appendix

economics

Economics: Work and Prosperity, Kirk [Amaz] – Level 5 Year 2, Level 6 Year 1, Level 6 Year 2

Note: These assignments may be based on an older version of the text, so no page numbers are included. Please let us know if you notice any discrepancies or would like to provide page numbers for the assignments.

Year 1

• Ch 1 Why Bother About Economics? & Building an Economy: the Pilgrims at Plymouth
• Ch 1 Everything Has to Be Worked For & Economists and the Language of Economics
• Ch 1 Goods, Wants, and Needs & Goods for Production, Goods to Use Up
• Ch 1 What Makes Goods Valuable?
• Ch 2 First Principles of Economics & The Mercantilists
• Ch 2 The Physiocrats & The Wealth of Nations
• Ch 2 Ways to Prosperity & The Limits of Economics
• Ch 3 Prosperity Does Not Grow on Trees & The Factor of Natural Resources
• Ch 3 The Factor of Labor
• Ch 3 The Factor of Capital
• Ch 3 Robinson Crusoe, Capitalist
• Ch 3 The Factor of Management
• Ch 3 The Gentleman Who Made Gunpowder for President Jefferson
• Ch 4 The Laws of Supply and Demand & Supply, Demand, and Value-in-Use
• Ch 4 The Dedham Farmer and the Boston Merchant Bargain
• Ch 4 Diminishing Marginal Valuation & Value-in-Exchange
• Ch 4 Price, Cost of Production, and Scarcity
• Ch 4 The Basic Laws of Demand and Supply
• Ch 4 Demand and Substitution & Statutory Laws Cannot Repeal Economic Laws
• Ch 4 The High Lord of the Marketplace
• Ch 4 Supply, Demand, and Rent Controls

Year 2

• Ch 5 The Productive Market Economy & Signals of the Market & Alternatives to the Test of the Market
• Ch 5 Profits and Productivity & The Great Expectations Bookshop
• Ch 5 Planktonburgers
• Ch 6 The Good that Competition Does & Health Competition, Ancient and Modern & Hesiod on Competition
• Ch 6 How Competition Works Practically in the Market & The Melon Market at El Escorial & Thistle River Industries
• Ch 6 Imperfect Competition & Oligopoly and Monopoly
• Ch 6 Monopoly versus the Market
• Ch 7 Efficiency of Production & Measuring Efficiency & Real Cost and Efficiency
• Ch 7 Efficiency and the Division of Labor & Adam Smith on Pinmaking
• Ch 7 Overspecialization & Geographic Specialization
• Ch 7 Efficiency and Comparative Advantage
• Ch 7 Scale of Production as a Source of Efficiency & Henry Ford and Mass Production
• Ch 7 Intelligence and Imagination as Causes of Efficiency
• Ch 8 Why Everybody Needs to Save & Fables of Saving & The Grasshopper and the Ant
• Ch 8 Scarcity, Money, and the Factors of Production in Old Egypt & Joseph the Bread-Seller
• Ch 8 The Rewards of Abstinence & Payment for Risk
• Ch 8 Wise Saving and Foolish Saving & The Parable of the Talents
• Ch 8 Many Forms of Saving & Savings in Stocks and Bonds
• Ch 8 Investment in Land & Compulsory Saving
• Ch 8 Why Modern Societies Require Huge Amounts of Capital

Year 3

• Ch 9 What Money Is Good For & The Difficulty of Getting Along without Money & The Pine-Tree Shillings
• Ch 9 The Four Functions of Money & Metallic Money
• Ch 9 Paper Money & The Duel of Randolph and Clay
• Ch 9 Most Money Is neither Coins nor Notes & The Treasury and the Federal Reserve System
• Ch 9 The Use and Abuse of Money & Midas of the Golden Touch & Paul of Tarsus on Money
• Ch 10 Government and the Economy & How Much Should Government Do? & Gold Rush Days
• Ch 10 The Meaning of Macroeconomics & American Attitudes toward Government in the Economy
• Ch 10 How Governments Can Damage Economic Systems
• Ch 11 Successes and Difficulties in the Market Economy & What the Market Economy Has Achieved & Opportunity Costs and Comparative Prices
• Ch 11 Criticisms of the Market Economy & Recessions, Depressions, and Unemployment
• Ch 11 Is a Market Economy Unjust & The Economics and Politics of Envy
• Ch 12 Promise and Performance in the Command Economy & What the Command Economy Tries to Achieve
• Ch 12 Touring a Command Economy
• Ch 12 Permanently Depressed Economies & Solzhenitsyn the Accountant
• Ch 12 Commands Often Have Unpleasant Results & Permanent Perplexities of a Command Economy
• Ch 13 The World’s Distressed Economy & Worldwide Economic Perplexities & Pollution, Waste, and Ugliness
• Ch 13 Dread Inflation & The Miscalculations of His Excellency Enrique Padron
• Ch 13 Political Causes of Inflation
• Ch 13 Inflation and Allied Difficulties in a Command Economy
• Ch 13 Secondary Causes of Inflation & Remedies for Inflation
• Ch 14 A Cheerful View of Our Economic Future & The Prophets of Doom & The World Is Not Growing Poorer
• Ch 14 Killing the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs & The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
• Ch 14 The Moral Foundation of Economics

Honors selection: Economics in One Lesson, Hazlitt [Amaz][online PDF] – Level 5 Year 2, Level 6 Year 1, Level 6 Year 2

Year 1

• Introduction pp. vii-x & Ch. 1 The Lesson pp. 3-7
• Ch. 2-3 The Broken Window, The Blessings of Destruction pp. 11-16
• Ch. 4-5 Public Works Mean Taxes, Taxes Discourage Production pp. 17-24
• Ch 6 Credit Diverts Production pp. 25-32
• Ch 7 The Curse of Machinery pp. 33-44
• Ch 8 Spread-the-Work Schemes pp. 45-50
• Ch. 9 Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats pp. 51-54
• Ch. 10 The Fetish of Full Employment pp. 55-58
• Ch. 11 Who’s “Protected” by Tariffs? pp. 59-68

Year 2

• Ch. 12 The Drive for Exports pp. 69-74
• Ch. 13 “Parity” Prices pp. 75-82
• Ch. 14-15 Saving the X Industry, How the Price System Works pp. 83-96
• Ch. 16 “Stabilizing” Commodities pp. 97-104
• Ch. 17 Government Price-Fixing pp. 105-114
• Ch. 18 Minimum Wage Laws pp. 115-120
• Ch. 19 Do Unions Really Raise Wages? pp. 121-132
• Ch. 20-21 “Enough to Buy Back the Product”, The Function of Profits pp. 133-144

Year 3

• Ch. 22 The Mirage of Inflation pp. 154-158
• Ch. 23 “The Assault on Saving” pp. 159-171
• Ch. 24 The Lesson Restarted pp. 173-183

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