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.
Textbooks used: Unlevel Playing Fields and Striking a Balance
Introduction to Macroeconomics
Textbooks used: Real World Macro
Textbooks used: Real World Macro
Textbooks used: Real World Micro
Textbooks used: Real World Banking
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.