Podcasts may be useful in the classroom, but teachers need to consider the instructional purpose andcontext within which they areused.

The highlighted websites can help teachers explain the financial crisis as well as help raise students overall financial literacy.

In this activity, students debate whether a business best serves society by maximizing profits or by promoting social justice policies.

AP economics courses are a positive-sum game students gain important skills and learn to determine the most advantageous combination of costs and benefits.

We may never achieve perfectly free international trade, but the struggle to reduce existing trade restrictions is a noble one.

In many of the nations top business schools it sometimes seems that a focus on profits has replaced ethics. Yet recent research shows that the teaching of ethics need not wait until higher education.

A survey of more than a thousand teachers reveals some interesting distinctions about economics teachers.

Keynesian fiscal policyout of fashion with economists and policymakers for decadeshas enjoyed a revival under President Obama's new economic policy team, but competing approaches also have their advocates.

The current economic crisis is primarily a story about unintended consequences and what happens when the incentive structure is damaged by unsound institutions and policies.

Taxes have played a significant role throughout American historyprovoking revolution, inspiring representative government, and financing war and major domestic initiatives.