AP Economics: Resources for Teaching Advanced Placement Economics

Mikeroeconomics: Greek Financial Crisis Through Cartoons

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Greek Financial Crisis Through Cartoons: A haircut is the term economists use to describe a cut in bond principal when a country renegotiates its debt. In March, 2005, Argentina ...

About the Author: Mike Fladien is a high school Economics and Law teacher in Muscatine, Iowa. He has been called the EconHacker because he has a talent for explaining Economics concepts in a simple language that anyone can understand.

Mikeroeconomics: Cartoons in Economic Education

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:14:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Cartoons in Economic Education: Dr. Jim Allen, forwarded t his paper on cartooning to me. The title of the paper is, The Use of Cartoons as a Teaching Tool to Enhance Stu...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Real Balances

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:24:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Real Balances: Real money balances measure how many goods and services your share of the nation's money supply will buy. Using this information, if Juan'...

Mikeroeconomics: Macroeconomic Indicators -- Recession

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:34:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Macroeconomic Indicators -- Recession: Leslie Wolfson, an extraordinary AP Economics teacher, has complied an outstanding list of weird indicators that economists can use to deter...

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:40:00 +0000

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses

Summary: The websites in this blog will help you teach with online tools.

About the Author: Mike Fladlien is an AP Economics teacher from Muscatine High School in Muscatine, IA. He is an EconEdLink.org author, and also publishes the Mikeroeconomics and iMacroeconomics VB blogs.

Liber8

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:01:00 +0000

Summary: Outstanding classroom activity from the St. Louis Fed.

An informative and accessible economic essay with a classroom application. Includes the full version of the Liber8 Newsletter, plus questions for students and an answer key for classroom use. Click here.

About the Author: Mike Fladlien is an AP Economics teacher from Muscatine High School in Muscatine, IA. He is an EconEdLink.org author, and also publishes the Mikeroeconomics, and Exam Cram apps.

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:09:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand: For teachers who want a worksheet on the variables that can move supply and demand, I have a Google document here . The document is 10 page...

Mikeroeconomics: Toy Tax

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:17:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Toy Tax: This Slate article explains why toys "face" a lower tax than dolls. So Transformer are action figures that are taxed lower than a Barbie....

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Unemployment Rate

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:56:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Unemployment Rate: Calculate the unemployment rate for June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct, and Nov. Interpret the data. My answers are in order my month:...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Per Unit Tax

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:02:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Per Unit Tax: In order to boost consumer spending, the government removes the per-unit tax on Pep UP! Print off this page and use a marker to show what h...

Mikeroeconomics: Kindle Fire

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:37:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Kindle Fire: Look for my app on teaching supply and demand on the Android Mall soon. The app is free to readers of this blog. This app will elimina...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Normal Goods

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:42:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Normal Goods: Print out the graph, Market for Pep UP! then use a pencil to sketch what happens to the market equilibrium when consumer incomes fall. Ass...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand: On the graph, Market for Pep UP! show what happens to the market equilibrium when the price of sugar donuts increases. Assume that sugar do...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:59:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand: On the graph, Market for Pep UP! show what happens to the market equilibrium for Pep UP! when the price of Yea! Cola increases. Assume th...

Mikeroeconomics: Kindle Fire APP

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:40:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Kindle Fire APP: My new app will be on supply and demand and available on Amazon.com next week. This app costs a $1 and will teach you about supply and de...

Mikeroeconomics: Derivied Demand and Ethanol

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:49:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Derivied Demand and Ethanol: Derived demand is a term used in the factor market used to explain that the demand for a resource such as labor is "derived" from the produc...

Mikeroeconomics: Ethanol Subsidy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:35:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Ethanol Subsidy: How do Ethanol subsidies work? I wrote to Dr. Walter Nicholson , author of my favorite intermediate textbooks on Microeconomics. This po...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Income Elasticity

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:25:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Income Elasticity: Can a good be both income inelastic and a normal good? My answer is "yes." If my income raises, I might buy more laundry detergent...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Natural Monopoly

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Natural Monopoly: 1. If the monopoly is unregulated, what will be the monopoly price? 2. What is the perfect competition price? 3. What is the approxim...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Real Variables

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:54:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Real Variables: AmosWEB.com has the best economics encyclopedia on the web. This Daily Review was inspired by looking at current statistics. If the CPI ...

Mikeroeconomics: Long Term Unemployment and Structural Unemployment...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:21:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Long Term Unemployment and Structural Unemployment...: This graphic is from the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Fiscal Analysis Initiative via Chart Porn. The blue line shows that the number se...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Market failure

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:32:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Market failure: Juan has a gambling problem. He gets a rush from playing the game plus he's good at it. Juan isn't in debt and no one thinks he should cal...

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Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Market Structure

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:32:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Market Structure: This is a quote from the WSJ . Steve Jobs knew all about competitive markets. He once likened our school system to the old phone monopoly...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Elasticity

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Elasticity: In the graph to the right, explain why the Demand curve is inelastic? My answer is that elasticity is defined as the percentage change i...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Related Goods

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:37:00 +0000

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Related Goods: In the recent recession, many workers are finding that their hours are being cut. Thus, for these workers, their income is declining. Supp...