Free market economics

This syllabus is intended to help teachers of high school economics explain economic principles in the classroom. However, it contains many suggestions for introducing and explaining economics to younger students, as well as material to challenge older students and even adult readers. In any case, many ideas are included for varying the material by dramatizing and simplifying explanations for younger students or enriching them for more mature students with extracurricular readings, papers and projects. Any teacher embarking on the course outlined in this syllabus should be fully aware that it presents the economic theory of the free market. It begins by defining economics and describing briefly how the science of economics has been developed over centuries. It discusses various thinkers and philosophers who have contributed to economic understanding. The theme throughout this that economics is a study of the consequences of (1) individual choices which depend on the ideas individuals hold and (2) individual actions taken in the conscious attempt to attain the various goals held by the individuals concerned. - General introduction.