Resources for Instructors

This resource page is for instructors looking for ideas about how to use Dollars & Sense books. On this page is a list of colleges and universities where D&S books have been used, syllabi (in pdf form) that include D&S books, and a list of resources that instructors might find useful in their own classrooms. If you would like to have us add something to this page or if you have any inquiries, please contact us.

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Syllabi

The following are a list of syllabi that have been used at different univerisites and which have used Dollars & Sense books either as primary texts, supplementary, or as a part of a large collection of readings. Please click on the links to see the syllabi.

Poverty and Discrimination

Textbooks used: Unlevel Playing Fields and Striking a Balance

Introduction to Macroeconomics

Textbooks used: Real World Macro

Principles of Macroeconomics

Textbooks used: Real World Macro

Principles of Microeconomics

Textbooks used: Real World Micro

Money & Banking

Textbooks used: Real World Banking

Radical Political Economy

Textbooks used: Real World Macro, Real World Micro, Introduction to Political Economy

Income Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination

Textbooks used: Unlevel Playing Fields

Honors Seminar Program: Conversation about the World

Textbooks used: Real World Globalization

Labor Studies: Labor in the Global Economy

Textbooks used: Real World Globalization

Political Economy: Money, Justice, and Politics

Textbooks used: Real World Macro and Real World Micro

Sociology: Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality

Textbooks used: The Wealth Inequality Reader

Helpful Links

The following is a list of links that will help you with getting up-to-date information on news and issues that revolve around typical topics in Dollars and Sense textbooks. We recommend visiting our Progressive Resources for Teaching Economics page for links to progressive articles, books, data centers, programs, and activist organizations. We also encourage you to visit our blog.

Production Frontier

National Priorities Project - This website has charts and data showing how much the U.S. spends on the military, and what the opportunity costs would be (in terms of the foregone social spending).

GDP

Ecological Footprint - This quiz, hosted by Redefining Progress examines the footprint of our lifestyle. It can be used in a discussion that examines the relationship of Economic Growth (or the GDP) with environmental sustainability and well-being. Scorecard - At this website, students can enter their zip code and find out information about pollution in their local communities.

Unemployment

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has a map of unemployment around the U.S. here.

Films and Videos

Economics U$A: John Maynard Keynes Economics U$A: Fiscal Policy Ten Trillion and Counting, PBS Frontline, (March 24, 2009), 60 min.

Fiscal Policy

Budget Explorer - The Budget Explorer home page presents a brief history of the US Federal Budget. Also has a budget calculator; students can adjust spending and revenues to enable the budget to be in deficit, surplus, or balanced. You Budget - This calculator has a similar feature as the one above, but for the Washington State budget.

Monetary Policy

The Federal Reserve - Students can go to the Fed's website to find the most recent Fed chair testimony.

The Global Economy

Working America- Students can enter their zip code and find information on companies that are exporting jobs overseas.