May 06 2008
Welker’s daily links 05/06/2008
Published by Jason Welker at 10:30 pm under Daily Links
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Guns versus butter model – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Guns vs. Butter” from Wikipedia. Read more about the model used by many econ teachers to demonstrate the concept of tradeoffs, opportunity costs, production possibilities curve…
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FT.com | The Economists’ Forum
A forum with articles and commentary from some of the leading economists in the world, including two Nobel Prize winners. There are some excellent discussions of very high quality here.
About the author: Jason Welker teaches International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement Economics at Zurich International School in Switzerland. In addition to publishing various online resources for economics students and teachers, Jason developed the online version of the Economics course for the IB and is has authored two Economics textbooks: Pearson Baccalaureate’s Economics for the IB Diploma and REA’s AP Macroeconomics Crash Course.
Jason is a native of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and is a passionate adventurer, who considers himself a skier / mountain biker who teaches Economics in his free time. He and his wife keep a ski chalet in the mountains of Northern Idaho, which now that they live in the Swiss Alps gets far too little use. Read more posts by this authorRelated posts:
