RE: [OPE] financial meltdown: teaching resources?

Hi Paul A:

There are some articles at "Dollars and Sense" http://www.dollarsandsense.org
which are relevant and suitable for that age group. Fred, for instance, has a
review of policy options to stop the forecloseures there.

The Center for Popular Economics http://www.populareconomics.org and
United for a Fair Economy http://www.faireconomy.org have relevant articles.
See, for example, a short article by Gerald Friedman called "The Election
and the Meltdown" in the Spring, 2008 issue of _The Popular Economist_
(which is available online). There is also a 5 minute animated presentation
on "How Savings Accounts and Stocks Function" which was designed for
high school classrooms ( http://teachingeconomics.org ).

Dean Baker, Rick Wolff, and others have written short, elementary
articles on the financial crisis for MRZine http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org.

My first thought, in reply to your query, was to look at what is on the URPE
site http://www.urpe.org since they maintain a page called "Resources for Teachers,
Researchers, and Activists" but the link to the latter wasn't working when
I tried it a minute ago.

You could ask Tony T
<http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/profiles/tinker.html> since he is giving
a talk on "Marx and the Politics of Sub-Prime" at the Bertell Ollman-sponsored
Colloquium on Marxist Theory this Friday. Obviously, the audience is more
advanced but Tony might have some ideas for you.

In solidarity, Jerry

_______________________________________________
ope mailing list
ope@lists.csuchico.edu
https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
Received on Mon Sep 22 09:29:28 2008