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Exploring Economics
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476 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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May 16, 2024
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used this as a history + economics curriculum and it was informative and i’d recommend for anyone in high school looking for a christian-based course. that being said, economics isn’t my favorite hence the 3 stars 🤭
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used this as a history + economics curriculum and it was informative and i’d recommend for anyone in high school looking for a christian-based course. that being said, economics isn’t my favorite hence the 3 stars 🤭
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December 22, 2023
Used for a high school econ class. I do not think this is a great book for the high school level. The text vacillates between extremely basic and repetitive, and using terms and examples above the comprehensive level the other half of the time. For teens, I think more definitions are needed and taking a personal finance or consumer math course before using this book would be helpful.
June 7, 2024
would not reccommend. the financial meltdown of 2008 was the BIGGEST let down of my life read 10 lessons in a day to get to that and was let down.
December 8, 2021
A little background. I taught economics at a Christian school for several years and have some acquaintance with the BJU and Abeka Economics texts. I would say this overall curriculum is better, especially with the Making Choices primary resource and the accompanying books.
This is a soundly free market text, even on issues such as tariffs, trade, and immigration which have been undergoing revision in conservative American circles in recent years.
There were some turns of phrase I would have edited. For example when the book says "money has value not in and of itself"(p195) --well, it depends on the money. And that's a key economics concept!
There were also some inconsistencies between the question order in the answer keys and the student books. Hopefully this will be fixed in future editions, but this makes grading work in classroom settings a bit more challenging.
Kudos to the authors for fairly facing issues such as discrimination and racism in America's past, while at the same time not losing sight of the good aspects of the modern American Economy.
Also, there are an absolute wealth of ideas for fun projects for students that go far beyond "write an essay."
Altogether a good resource that I would use again.
This is a soundly free market text, even on issues such as tariffs, trade, and immigration which have been undergoing revision in conservative American circles in recent years.
There were some turns of phrase I would have edited. For example when the book says "money has value not in and of itself"(p195) --well, it depends on the money. And that's a key economics concept!
There were also some inconsistencies between the question order in the answer keys and the student books. Hopefully this will be fixed in future editions, but this makes grading work in classroom settings a bit more challenging.
Kudos to the authors for fairly facing issues such as discrimination and racism in America's past, while at the same time not losing sight of the good aspects of the modern American Economy.
Also, there are an absolute wealth of ideas for fun projects for students that go far beyond "write an essay."
Altogether a good resource that I would use again.
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