Economics: a visual approach
Lee Arnold has a series of visual presentations at a high school level that might be useful to introduce different topics to friends and family that do not follow econoblogs. Here is the introduction to the series, which Lee tells me is for dissemination. (The visuals are copyrighted to help prevent voice overs and other pirating.)
Just wanted to let you know your (open salon) link isn’t working.
Very clever. Hope you keep it up for other areas of economics.
Lee is suggesting the series will be on-going with something like 80 installments.
Another very important production by Lee was this animation on Social Security: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tts2uTWt6e8
I found it very useful back during the There is No Crisis days of 2005-2006
Thanks jeff…fixed now.
I think AB can post one or two a week over the next months…many of the later ones will be text book economics based. Teaching even advanced placement high school economics is harder to do well than it sounds if thinking is the goal…
One of the first jobs is to pry loose slogans learned from general exposure to ‘economic’ thinking from the media, and the use of common terms in the general population to describe specialized definitions…’demand’, for instance.
Perhaps a small list and comments from curriculum devoted to basic economics might serve a function…it seems many claim to understand economic principles but either in vernacular or layman assunptions. Yet the language is used loosely.