AP Microeconomics – When Markets Fail

Updated: January 12 2017,

Author: Gary Stone

Standards

Grades 9-12

Businesses use advertising to tell consumers about the goods and services they are selling. Businesses hope that their advertisements will...

Key Concepts: Advertising, Business Costs and Revenues, Economic Institutions…

Lesson

Grades 9-12

In this economics activity, students will examine workforce safety issues for teens.

Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment, Roles of Government

20 mins

Activity

Grades 9-12

In this economics activity, students will analyze a political cartoon to examine how beliefs influence economic decisions.

Key Concepts: Fiscal Policy, Roles of Government

20 mins

Activity

Grades 9-12

In this economics activity, students will compare the opinions about the federal government's stimulus package.

Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy, Roles of Government

30 mins

Activity

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