Camps for Budding Economists

•  Economics Fundamental Initiative Boot Camp  for the Economics Olympiad, Athens, Macro Study Slides * International Economics Olympiad Bootcamp Worksheets * Prezi Circular Flow Diagram

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Book Clubs
 

• Teachers Can Be Financially Fit with Katrina Babb, Director of the Center for Economic Education, Indiana State University, Katrina.Babb@indstate.edu

  • Week 1 - Introduction to the Financial Fitness Book Club, Information on how to get a book, Session "How Financially Fit Teachers Navigate the Next Pandemic," Receive a complimentary copy of the Teachers Can Be Financially Fit Workbook

  • Week 2 - The Anatomy of a Financially Fit book chapter, Interactive discussion of Chapter 1 "Yes, Teachers Can Be Financially Fit," and Chapter 2 "Budgeting for Life: Mapping Out Success," and Book Club selects the next two topics

  • Week 3 - Investing, Managing Debt, and Budget with sponsors: Indiana State University and Its Center for Economic Education, Indiana Council for Economic Education, and Old National Bank

  • Week 4 - Retirement Paths in Indiana, Illinois and Beyond

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Teaching and Learning Resources and Select Conferences

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EconLib@LibertyFund

• Teaching College Students About Money & Cryptocurrency, T. Ferrarini

 

The Association of Private Enterprise Education, Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 6-8, 2025

• Economic Freedom and Local Labor Market Outcomes, Tawni Ferrarini, Florida State University; and Howard Wall, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

• ChatGPT: Good, Bad, and Ugly, Tawni Ferrarini, Florida State University

• The Economics of Artificial Intelligence, Mark Schug, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Tawni Ferrarini, Florida State University

• Common Sense Economics Goes 'Viral' in Eastern Europe, Tawni Ferrarini, Florida State University

 

Fiscal Fitness: Michigan by T. Ferrarini. Sponsored by the Western Michigan Policy Forum, September 24, 2018. 

• Video and PPT

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Institutions Matter: The Case of North and South Korea by T. Ferrarini. Sponsored by the International Exchange at Lindenwood University, September 21, 2018.

• PPT
   

Economic Episodes in American History, Lakeland University Workshop for K-16 Educators, Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WI with Scott Niederjohn, Colin O'Reilly, and Mark Schug

• Were the Robber Barons Robbers or Barons?

  • PPT by Ferrarini

  • Lesson 18:  Chalk-mark Factory

• Is Free Trade Out of Date?  PPT by Ferrarini

• Getting EEAH into the Classroom and Making Sure It Works

• Join the research team by emailing Dr. Colin O'Reilly at:  ColinOreilly@creighton.edu​

• Join the Common Sense Economics MOOC (no money cost)

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"Why Do Some Nations Prosper: North and South Korea," Association of Private Enterprise Education, 42nd Annual Meetings, Maui, HI, April 10, 2017

• With Lucien Ellington (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

• ​Why Do Some Nations Prosper? “The Case of North and South Korea”​

• PPT​

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"Meeting Millennials in Their Preferred Learning Spaces," Association of Private Enterprise Education​, 42nd Annual Meetings, Maui, HI, April 10, 2017

• Innovations in Economic Education: Promising Practices for Teachers and Students K-16​

• Quality Matters

• PPT

• "That’s Mine! - Property Rights among the Walking Dead," Association of Private Enterprise Education, 42nd Annual Meetings, Maui, HI, April 10, 2017

• Ferrarini, T.  (Forthcoming, 2017). “Walking Dead: Illustrating the Importance of Property Rights” in Charity-Joy Acchiardo and Michell Vachris (Eds.) Dystopian Economics.  Routledge: New York, NY.

• PPT​

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​Political versus market allocation, Economics and the pursuit of happiness, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Indianapolis, IN, March 20, 2017

• Economics of discrimination, Council on Economic Education, New York, NY, February, 15, 2017

• Personal income: active income, passive income, and government sponsored funds, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Lansing, MI, February 03, 2017

• Email me for presentations before January 2017

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Webinars
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"Why Do Some Nations Prosper: North and South Korea" with Tawni. Sponsored by the Council on Economic Education. New York, NY, August 21, 2018.

 

Supply and Demand Interactives with Tawni.  Sponsored by the Council on Economic Education. New York, NY, December 06, 2017.

• PPT  Email for a Google link.  The file size is 53 MB.

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Were the Robber Barons Robbers or Entrepreneurs? with T. Ferrarini.  Sponsored by the Council on Economic Education. New York, NY, September 27, 2017.

• PPT

• Purchase a copy of Economic Episodes in American History by Mark Schug and Bill Wood.

• Lesson 18:  Chalk-mark Factory

• Purchase a copy of Common Sense Economics (2016) by Gwartney, Stroup, Lee, Ferrarini, and Calhoun.

• Join the Common Sense Economics MOOC (no money cost)
   

Interested in inviting Tawni Hunt Ferrarini to present at your university, community group, or conference?   Email Tawni.Ferrarini@gmail.com