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Economics Semester Integration Ideas

=__**Unit 1**__=


 *  scarcity
 * [[file:To Build a Fire.pdf]]
 * goods
 * services
 *  economic decision-making
 *  benefits
 * costs
 * cost/benefit analysistrade-offs
 * Thinking Like an Economist Chapter 3 Of Mice and Men
 * opportunity cost
 * external cost

Ode unit that incorporates all terms  Inquiry note sheets  ...and some more   Working with the ode -- fiction reading <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">

=__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Unit 2 **__=


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">demand
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">equilibrium
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">invisible hand / market mechanism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">law of demand
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">law of supply
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">market
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">market price
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">monopoly
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">perfect competition
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">substitute goods
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">supply
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">competition
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">private property rights
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">profit motive
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">self-interest
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">voluntary exchange

=__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Unit 3 **__=

>>> market-based economic system
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">Factors of production
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">capital (Physical capital and human capital)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">land
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">labor
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Economic Systems
 * capitalism
 * centrally-planned system (command economy)
 * communism
 * economic efficiency
 * maximization of resources (the factors of production) to maximize the output of goods and services;
 * minimizing waste.
 * Increasing productivity.
 * economic equity: the idea that resources should be distributed more equally in society
 * free market
 * laissez faire
 * mixed economies (modern economies
 * socialism

=__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Unit 4 **__=


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">collateral
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">compounding interest
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">credit
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">credit cards
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">credit history / credit report
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">debt
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">default / foreclosure
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">interest
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">interest rate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">mortgage
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">principal
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">student loans
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">down payment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">diversification
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">financial adviser
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">growth (as an investment objective)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">income (as an investment objective)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">investment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">liquidity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">portfolio
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">risk
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">return
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> corporation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">dividends
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">“going public” / IPO
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">stock/shares
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">shareholder
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">stock market / stock exchange
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> bonds
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">CD (Certificate of Deposit)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">home equity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">maturity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">mutual fund
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">real estate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">retirement accounts (i.e. IRAs, 401ks)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">coverage
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">deductible
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">insurance policy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">insurance rates
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">premiums
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">what affects your rates
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">collision insurance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">comprehensive insurance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">liability insurance

=__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Unit 5 **__= >
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">contracts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">patents
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">anti-trust laws
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">natural monopoly
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">market failure
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">public goods
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">safety nets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">external costs/ negative externalities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">regulation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">subsidies (reasons for them, affect on supply, demand and prices)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">excise tax (reasons for them, affect on supply, demand and prices)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Classical economics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Keynesian economics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">consumer confidence
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">discount rate (The role of the Fed)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">GDP growth rate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">GDP per capita
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">income inequality measures (gap between rich and poor)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">inflation / Consumer Price Index (CPI)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">money supply
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">new housing starts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">poverty rate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">unemployment rate