THE INVISIBLE HAND
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The Secretary of Energy asks his policy group to help plan to implement price-control legislation. Explaining how this may affect a free market, the policy group must balance the needs of various groups of consumers with the need to provide suppliers’ incentives. Topics include supply and demand, equilibrium price and quantity, black market, price ceiling and price control, shortage, scarcity, and tradeoff.
This title is part of the series: THE INVISIBLE HAND
| Copyright | 2010 |
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| Publisher | Buck Institute for Education/Interact |
| Grade | 9–12 |
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| File Size | 11.7 MB |
Sample pages
- Voicemail of Les Singer
- Les Singer, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
- Jimmy Hoffman, President, Meadowlands Trucking
- Joe Gannon, Police Sergeant, LAPD
- Eve Tamar, parent
- Maddy Washington, teen
- Arnold Ziffel, farmer
- Christina Lopez, Director, local community-based organization
- Fiori Packart, Chief Executive Officer, Hew Production
- Henry Edsel, hybrid car producer
- Helen Moses, senior citizen
- Ted Tilton, Chief Operating Officer, Amalgamated Airlines
- Victor Tran, Director, Manhattan Transit Authority
- Imelda Guzman, long-distance commuter
- Jamal Hayward, 23-year-old worker
- Final Voicemail from Les Singer
