Andre Dollinger
Reshafim: Ancient Egyptian Economy
An interesting overview of the economy of ancient Egypt. It covers everything from sources of wealth, taxation, and the benefits of the economic system. Hyperlinks to other articles on this site.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How Economies Can Be Organized: An Overview of Economic Systems
By the end of this section, you will be able to contrast traditional economies, command economies, and market economies; explain gross domestic product (GDP); and assess the importance and effects of globalization.
iCivics
I Civics: Government & the Economy
Students learn how government and the economy are related and the difference between market, command, and mixed economies.
PBS
Pbs: Commanding Heights the Battle for the World Economy
A huge site dedicated to an understanding of the current global economic system. Includes the history, forces, values and perceptions that have shaped the world's economy. A comprehensive resource that includes a detailed economic report...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Market Economy
In a market economy, the principles of supply and demand determine what is produced, how it is produced, and by whom it is produced and consumed. Learn how planned economies and mixed economies differ.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Planned Economy
Wikipedia offers detailed information on a planned economy, including support, objections, planned economy and socialism, transition from planned to market economy, and related articles.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Nothing to Buy
This site is a printable lesson that compares the command economy of Soviet Russia with the market economy of present day Russia. Lesson provides tables with data comparing prices within the two systems. Discussion questions are also...
George Mason University
Marxist Origins of Communism
This site shows the reasons for Karl Marx's belief in a command economy, and contrasts Marx's views from other philosophers such as Locke and Voltaire.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Economy of the Soviet Union
This economic history of the Soviet Union begins with its revolutionary beginnings and examines the state of the economy throughout the decades of the twentieth century.
Other
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: The Economics of Pro Team Sports
Great interactive baseball game that combines your knowledge of economics and pro sports trivia. After completing the nine innings, you should have a better understanding of how economics is used in everyday life.
PBS
Pbs: Russia's Conversion From Communism to Capitalism
A case that examines Russia's real-world struggles of converting from a command to market economy. Asks students to consider the pros and cons of both market systems and to formulate explanations for the large gap between the country's...
PBS
Pbs: Commanding Heights: Battle for the World Economy: John Maynard Keynes
Profile of Keynes excerpted from Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw's book on the evolution of the global economy, "The Commanding Heights."
PBS
Pbs: Commanding Heights: Nigeria, an Overview
Brief timeline of Nigerian history in the twentieth century, from the PBS series "Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy." Includes timeline entries related to independence, which was achieved in 1960.
AllRefer
All Refer Reference: Russia: Postwar Growth Period
This overview of Soviet economic policy after WWII looks at the command or planned economies and decisions of Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Economic Systems
Helps students discover the three basic economic questions and how each system answers these questions, identify several key advantages and disadvantages for each economic system, recognize some economic indicators that can measure...
A&E Television
History.com: How the South Helped Win the American Revolution
British commanders attempted to reverse their floundering fortunes by launching a campaign in the South. There the British would find not just crops such as tobacco, rice and indigo that were vital to their economy, but stronger Loyalist...
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