Standards-aligned economics that’s practical and applicable!

Now you can make economics feel real and relevant while meeting state and national standards. With 11 chapters and 49 lessons, this course makes it easy for students to learn how economic principles apply to real-life situations.

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Table of Contents

Chapter and Lesson titles subject to change, topics are final.

Lays the foundation for understanding how the economy works by exploring scarcity, opportunity cost, incentives, and the value of wise decision-making. Highlights the role of self-interest, utility, and long-run growth in shaping economic choices—from individuals to entire nations. 

  • Lesson 1: Why Economics Matters
  • Lesson 2: Unlimited Wants, Scarce Resources
  • Lesson 3: Decision-Making and Choice
  • Lesson 4: Efficiency
  • Lesson 5: Incentives

Explores how societies answer the basic economic questions through different systems—market, command, mixed, and traditional. Highlights the role of property rights, government involvement, and competition in shaping economic freedom and how goods and services are distributed. 

  • Lesson 1: The Allocation of Resources
  • Lesson 2: Market vs. Command Economies
  • Lesson 3: Property Rights
  • Lesson 4: The Free Enterprise System

Unpacks the laws of supply and demand, showing how prices are set in the market and how shortages and surpluses are resolved. Connects prices to decision-making, coordination, and incentives—and explains how wages are determined in the labor market. 

  • Lesson 1: Demand
  • Lesson 2: Supply
  • Lesson 3: Equilibrium
  • Lesson 4: Prices
  • Lesson 5: The Labor Market

Explores how specialization and comparative advantage make trade more efficient. Breaks down the benefits and challenges of globalization, and the role of tariffs, quotas, and exchange rates in shaping international trade. 

  • Lesson 1: Comparative Advantage and Specialization
  • Lesson 2: Efficiency of Trade
  • Lesson 3: Globalization
  • Lesson 4: Trade Barriers

Explores how governments step in when markets don’t work perfectly—through public goods, subsidies, regulations, and price controls. Highlights how externalities and interest rates shape individual choices and long-term outcomes. 

  • Lesson 1: Externalities, Subsidies, and Regulations
  • Lesson 2: Public Goods and Services
  • Lesson 3: Price Controls
  • Lesson 4: Market for Loanable Funds

Breaks down the different types of businesses structures, how they compete, and what drives their decisions. Explains the role of entrepreneurs, the costs of production, and how firms grow by weighing risks and rewards. 

  • Lesson 1: Market Structures
  • Lesson 2: Factors of Production
  • Lesson 3: Production on the Margin
  • Lesson 4: Business Types
  • Lesson 5: Entrepreneurs

Spotlights what drives long-term growth and how economists measure it. Focuses on GDP, the circular flow model, employment trends, and what influences standard of living and national prosperity. 

  • Lesson 1: Fundamentals of Economic Development
  • Lesson 2: Circular Flow Model
  • Lesson 3: Measuring Growth (GDP)
  • Lesson 4: Standards of Living
  • Lesson 5: Employment Trends

Explores what money is, how banking works, and why inflation matters. Covers the history of currency, how the Federal Reserve manages the money supply, and how monetary policy influences interest rates and affects broader economic goals. 

  • Lesson 1: History of Money
  • Lesson 2: Banking System
  • Lesson 3: Inflation
  • Lesson 4: Monetary Policy

Breaks down how the government taxes, spends, and borrows to steer the economy. Explains the federal budget, the national debt, and how fiscal policy aims to control inflation, reduce unemployment, and support growth—while showing how political incentives shape these decisions. 

  • Lesson 1: Federal Budget and Spending
  • Lesson 2: Taxes
  • Lesson 3: Applying Fiscal Policy
  • Lesson 4: Political Economy

Explores how economies grow, slow down, and recover—plus how unemployment, inflation, and government responses fit into the big picture. Unpacks the business cycle, short- versus long-run thinking, and competing economic philosophies. 

  • Lesson 1: Business Cycle Theory
  • Lesson 2: Unemployment
  • Lesson 3: Short-Run vs. Long-Run Economics
  • Lesson 4: Economic Philosophies

Applies the key economic principles to personal finance by highlighting budgeting, saving, debt, housing, insurance, and investing. Spotlights how to take control of money with confidence and intentionality. 

  • Lesson 1: Intentionality With Money
  • Lesson 2: Living Debt-Free
  • Lesson 3: College and Career Planning
  • Lesson 4: Real Estate and Insurance
  • Lesson 5: Investing and Your Future

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Yes! Foundations in Economics is available in a fully digital option, as well as a print and streaming option. No matter what delivery method you choose, a printed Teachers Guide is availabe for purchase.

Foundations in Economics is designed as a semester-long course with stand-alone chapters. We provide you with flexible pacing guides that you can choose from, but if you don’t need a full semester course, the stand-alone chapters allow you to make the course fit your schedule—not the other way around.