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Course Description

Using inquiry in economics, high school students explore the economic reasoning process to make informed decisions in a wide variety of contexts. Economics is grounded in knowledge about how people, institutions, and societies choose to use resources to meet their wants and needs. The study of economics can be approached from many angles and perspectives with a focus on inquiry. A comprehensive economics course should include content from the following topics:

• Financial Literacy/ Personal Finance including but not limited to budgeting, saving, spending, investment, credit, banking, and insurance
• Economic Reasoning including but not limited to the concepts of scarcity, factors of production, opportunity costs, and cost-benefit analysis
• Economic systems including but not limited to command, mixed, and free market, and economic philosophers and theories, including but not limited to Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
• Exchange and Markets including but not limited to supply and demand, private property rights, competition, incentives, entrepreneurship, prices, the invisible hand, competition, and institutions in the private and public sector 
• The National Economy including but not limited to fiscal and monetary policy, GDP, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, and distribution of wealth
• The Global Economy including but not limited to trade, tariffs, and exchange rates

Course Assignments are weighted as follows:

80% - Assessments

20% - Coursework

0% - Practice

Automatic Zeros go into the grade book for all late work.