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Teaching with the Wealth of Nations (July 2019)

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July 2019

with Alice Temnick
Wednesday, July 10: On the Division of Labor


o    Reading: Article to Introduce Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations  Economics and the Ordinary Person: Re-Reading Adam Smith, Samuel Fleishacker


o    Reading from  Wealth of Nations: Book 1 Ch. 1 Of the Division of Labor


o    AdamSmithWorks Website: Pin Factory Interactive website 


o    AdamSmithWorks Website: An Animal That Trades: Division of Labor



Wednesday, July 17: On Farm Subsidies


o    Explore this Teacher Resource Collection: Why Subsidize Farmers?


o    Reading: Wealth of Nations Book IV, Ch V  On Bounties


 
Wednesday, July 24: On Free Trade and Exchange


o    Explore this Teacher Resource Collection: Can Trade Wars Be Won?


o    Reading: Wealth of Nations Book IV, Chapter II Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of such Goods as can be Produced at Home


o    AdamSmithWorks Website: An Animal That Trades: The Free Market