2023 Winter Economics Bootcamp: Microeconomics Afternoon Session with Amanda Stiglbauer

Time: 180 mins,

Presenter: Amanda Stiglbauer

Objective

In this webinar, teachers will be able to:

Distinguish the characteristics of the four major market structures and learn activities to help students understand the relevance of this topic.
Explain the importance of establishing institutions like private property rights, entrepreneurship, rule of law, and markets and apply these institutions to countries around the world.
Examine how specialization and comparative advantage provide the basis for trade.

Standards

State Standards

Concepts

Comparative Advantage, Comparative Advantage, Financial Institutions, Globalization, Incentives, International Trade, Market Structures, Property Rights, Specialization, Specialization

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Description

In this webinar, participants will use the latest EdTech Tools, current events, and fun activities to teach market structures – perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition – the economic institutions of capitalism, and the basis for trade through specialization and comparative advantage. Participants will leave with resources they can readily use in their classrooms this spring!