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SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Choices & Dating

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SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Choices & Dating

First lesson: Economics is not about money. It's a lens of great power and beauty. In this episode, we meet our teachers and learn the first four fundamental concepts of economic thinking, and watch them applied to things like dating and hailing a cab. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Choices & Dating

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SUMMER SCHOOL 2: Markets & Pickles

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SUMMER SCHOOL 2: Markets & Pickles

In our second class, we meet our old friends supply and demand and do graphs using only the power of the human voice. Then, we show you how markets can be created anywhere by telling the story of a food bank that had too many pickles and not enough pancake syrup. It's economics to the rescue. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

SUMMER SCHOOL 2: Markets & Pickles

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SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Profit & Cocaine

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SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Profit & Cocaine

In our third class, we take all that we've learned about decisions and markets and bring it to a former drug kingpin. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Profit & Cocaine

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SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Scarcity & Pistachios

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SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Scarcity & Pistachios

Class 4 brings us an economic conundrum: how do you efficiently share a scarce resource? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Scarcity & Pistachios

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SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Trade & Santa

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SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Trade & Santa

The economics of free trade and what happens when governments get involved. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Trade & Santa

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SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Taxes & Donald Duck

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SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Taxes & Donald Duck

The surprisingly entertaining history of the income tax. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Taxes & Donald Duck

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SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Risk & Disaster

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SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Risk & Disaster

Inside one insurance policy is a world of incentives and bad behaviors. Take the final exam and get your diploma here.

SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Risk & Disaster

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SUMMER SCHOOL: Graduation!

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SUMMER SCHOOL: Graduation!

Summer School graduates take the stage to show us how we can all see our everyday world through the beautiful lens of economics. | Take the final exam and get your diploma here.

SUMMER SCHOOL: Graduation!

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