Course Registration No. ECO-746
COURSE OVERVIEW
A one-semester course, worth five high school credits. Course plan studying Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?, Survival Math Skills, Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum, Pope Pius XI's Quadragesimo Anno, Pope John Paul II's Centesimus Annus. A Track students will also add Russell Kirk's Economics: Work and Prosperity.
A one-semester introduction to economic history, theory, and practice. This course introduces students to microeconomics (how the choices made by individuals, households, and businesses affect an economy) and macroeconomics ("big picture" economic phenomena such as inflation, price levels, rate of growth, national income, gross domestic product, changes in unemployment, production, supply and demand, competition, and the like). Students will learn functional math skills through real-life applications such as planning nutrition, arranging for transportation, maintaining bank accounts, developing personal budgets, understanding job benefits, and more. Discussed throughout the semester are economic ideologies such as distributism and subsidiarity that lean heavily upon the principles of Catholic social teaching, especially the teachings of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum novarum and Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo anno.
BOOKS AND MATERIALS
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104 pages; 8 sections with a test per section; 46 lessons. |
 
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Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? 6th or 7th Edition
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Economics: Work and Prosperity in Christian Perspective
292 pages; 14 lessons; glossary, index, and index of Scripture references. Any edition will do. Only the reader is necessary. |
 
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282 pages |
 
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
280 pages. |
 
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“Reflections on a Rotten Apple,” an essay published in 'The Well and the Shallows'
Paperback: 203 pages |
 
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An Essay on the Restoration of Property
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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
218 pages. (any edition) |
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Paperback: 352 pages; Reprint edition (October 19, 2010) |
 
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Socrates Meets Marx: The Father of Philosophy Cross-Examines the Founder of Communism
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The Hound of Distributism: A Solution for Our Social and Economic Crisis
167 pages |
 
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