This article presents an overview of major factors contributing to the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Descriptions of teaching resources and ideas for lesson plans are provided.

The Career Development Project formulated this resource lesson guide. The third volume is devoted to economic awareness leading to the life-time target of economic understanding. After a ten-page introduction to career development, career development rationale and theories, and career clusters, an overview of the lesson guide and rationale and…

Institutional economics remains a viable alternative approach to economics. It stresses power, technology, and a holistic and evolutionary approach while critiquing the neoclassical approach. General features of institutional economics are examined, and the work of institutionalists in specific areas is discussed. (RM)

The contribution of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) to current economic thought is reviewed. Keynes' analysis is contrasted with more orthodox theory in terms of allocation efficiency and stabilization efficiency. (Author/RM)

Keynes's explanation of both the rationale underlying downwardly sticky money wages and the consequences this phenomenon has for macroeconomic theory are reviewed. An aggregate supply curve appropriate to today's economy is then interpreted. (Author/RM)

An externality is an activity on the part of one party that enters directly into another party's utility or production function. The distinction between genuine and pecuniary externalities should not be based on their differing impacts on relative prices, but rather on their impacts on third parties' utility and production functions. (Author/RM)

Recently there has been a burst of activity in the development of resources in economics for teachers in grades K-12. California organizations, national organizations, and teaching materials are described. (SR)

Neither short-run nor long-run price stability is a necessary state of affairs under a gold standard. This conclusion results from an examination of possible differential rates of productivity growth in the gold and non-gold producing sectors. (Author/RM)

Over 65 free or inexpensive materials published by government agencies, businesses, and industries for elementary and secondary school economics education are presented in this annotated listing. Intended to help teachers obtain curriculum materials, the guide lists only those items determined suitable by the authors, who examined all materials in…

This bibliography, part of the Vocational Education Resource Materials system, is designed to: (1) Encourage and support curriculum development and instructional activities in vocational education and career development through collection and dissemination of appropriate materials, (2) supplement and complement efforts of the (Wisconsin) State…

Describes over 20 inexpensive resources for use in the teaching of economics at the elementary and secondary level, including publications of the Joint Council for Economic Education. Addresses and prices of materials are included. (KC)

In illustrating how instruction in child development can reach everyone, the author quotes from Forum 22 on the Rights of Children, the Forum's recommendations to the President, and recommendations from the White House Conference on Children. Resource materials for child development teachers are discussed. The importance of parenthood education is…

Stuart Chase, through his writings, contributed greatly to acquainting the American public with many concepts generally accepted today: social planning to eliminate economic waste, greater government regulation of business, confrontation of technological unemployment, a national approach to social and economic questions at right angles to laissez…

The guide contains class activities for consumer education at the elementary grade level. The interdisciplinary activities are appropriate for whole class, small group, or individual research in consumerism. Teachers can adjust the activities to any elementary grade level by varying the approach. The guide's major objective is to help children…