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Sports Economics: Teaching Entrepreneurship

Presenter: Council for Economic Education
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Human Capital, Scarcity

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Most students in a typical American high school are probably wearing footwear and/or athletic apparel produced by Adidas, Nike, or Under Armour. This webinar will present a role-play activity where students take on the roles of entrepreneurs, professional athletes, and ordinary consumers to demonstrate how entrepreneurs make lives better for consumers of their products.

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Economics

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