MI High School Economics Curriculum

MI High School Economics Topics

• Scarcity and Choice: Explores how individuals, businesses, and governments make decisions when resources are limited, including opportunity cost and trade-offs.
• Supply and Demand: Covers how markets determine prices, the factors that shift supply and demand curves, and how equilibrium is reached.
• Market Structures: Examines competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and other market forms, and how each affects consumers and producers.
• Government and the Economy: Looks at fiscal policy, taxation, public goods, regulation, and the role government plays in a mixed economy.
• Personal Finance: Addresses budgeting, saving, credit, investment, and financial decision-making skills relevant to everyday life.
• Global Economics: Introduces international trade, comparative advantage, exchange rates, and how national economies connect in a global marketplace.

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