Complex Topics Made Simple

• Activity: What is Consumer Price Index (CPI) [PDF]? By Tawni Ferrarini, Northern Michigan University’s Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship and James Gwartney, Florida State University’s Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education
• Activity: "College: Where I am Going to Go?" By EconEdLink.org (Economic Concepts: Scarcity and Marginal Analysis)
• What is a Dollar Worth? By the Federal Reserve System, Minneapolis, District 9
• Activity: Gains from Trade Game[PDF]
• What is Globalization? A Student's Guide to Globalization. Site managed by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• Activity: Gross Domestic Product:  What It Is and How It Is Measured [PDF] By Tawni Hunt Ferrarini, Northern Michigan University’s Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship and James Gwartney, Florida State University’s Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education
• Activity: Learning and Earning. Site mangaged by TheMint.org. (Use the site to see how higher education translates into higher earning levels, on average.
• Activity: A Property Rights Simulation[PDF]

Classic Readings (Overview)

• I, Pencil by Leonard Read (Audio, 16.50 minutes)
• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (Audio, 1.39 minutes)
• Unfair Competition with the Sun is a condensed, CSE version of The Petition of the Candlestick Makers by Frederic Bastiat (Audio, 7.44 minutes)
• What is Seen and What Is Not Seen by Frederic Bastiat (Audio, 18.11 minutes)

Readings Reflective of Common Sense

• Censoring Pleas for Help by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9.07 minutes)
• Creating Jobs vs. Creating Wealth by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.58 minutes)
• Comparative Advantage by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.47 minutes)
• Demand and Supply by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.34 minutes)
• The Economic Advantages of a Commitment to Liberty by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9.09 minutes)
• Energy Production versus Conservation by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.45 minutes)
• It's the Margin that Counts by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.12 minutes)
• Markets and Freedom by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.14 minutes)
• Markets and Marginalism by Dwight Lee (Audio, 7.58 minutes)
• More on Marginalism by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.40 minutes)
• Opportunities and Costs by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.45 minutes)
• Opportunity Costs and Hidden Inventions by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9.10 minutes)
• Politics and Foreign Trade by Dwight Lee (Audio, 7.51 minutes)
• The Power of Incentives by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.19 minutes)
• Private Property and Opportunity Costs by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.22 minutes)
• Running Out of Agricultural Land by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.48 minutes)
• Sacrificing Lives for Profits by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.40 minutes)
• Social Cooperation and the Marketplace by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8.44 minutes)
• Specialization and Wealth by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9.15 minutes)