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I would like to know how your family has provided an economics credit to your high schooler? Do you use a textbook of any kind, or do you put your own course together?
My senior has read Uncle Eric's "What Ever Happened to Penny Candy." We are also reading through "Wow the Dow." Although the Uncle Eric book explains a lot of good economics, I feel I need for my son to have more than that --- a way to be sure he understands economics more than just the history of money and how to spend/save it. I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can share!
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I don't have high schoolers, and I can't really speak of credits or anything, but I thought you might be interested in this book for some more living book ideas on economics:
The Literary Book of Economics
Also, this student's guide might help you:
A Student's Guide to Economics
The student's guide series from ISI is directed more for college students, but they are generally really good succinct overviews of a subject with lots of references to source materials. My dh says they are pretty popular among home schoolers who get them (he used to work the tables at conferences and such promoting the org and its materials).
Okay, so, I just went upstairs and found the student's guide. It seems a good overview in only 60 pages, and has things broken down by theme which might help you understand the different parts of economics to study. The literary book is organized by theme as well, buts its an anthology rather than a description.
My husband was the Economics major. I can ask him when he gets home for other suggestions.
You might also click the tab at the top of the webpages sited for "Free Markets and Civil Society" It would provide references to some of the books and even free online lectures available from ISI.
Other Economic Titles I'm Not As Familiar with from ISI
Sorry my suggestions area all from the same place, I just trust the source and don't have any other reference with my oldest at 3 1/2, lol. (I used to work for ISIBooks, and dh still works for ISI).
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Don't have high schoolers.. but I read the "penny candy" book for myself.. have you checked out the other "Uncle Eric" books? there's a bunch more.. if you go to the publisher's website for them (http://www.bluestockingpress.com/) you can see the order they're suggested to be read in. They cover lots more than just what "penny candy" did.
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Do a search for Exchange City. We have several here in New England and the material they provide is wonderful.
Exchange City is a program where children learn about economics in the classroom or home and then spend a full day in a "city" utilizing all they have learned - from writing checks to appluing for a loan to balancing a business budget. My son loved it and he had no prior experience in ecom=nomics before that.
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For our economics credit we have used:
Economics: Work and Prosperity (a high school textbook but quite readable and by the famous conservative Russell Kirk)
Economics in One Lesson (available online here
and
Small is Still Beautiful
and have thought of using Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
I also saw this book
Money Management for College Students by Larry Burkett (Protestant Christian) but I have no idea what it is like -- looked like it might be helpful so I am planning to see if my library has it.
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Another ISI book  Dh's coworkers keep telling us we have to read it. Did you like it?
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My daughter, a senior, is reading it. I read the original Small is Beautiful, liked it very much, and am looking forward to when my daughter is done reading the second one so I can read it 
I love the work that ISI does. I just read another book published by them called Bonfire of the Humanities.
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My favorite ISI book I read recently was "The American Way." It was a fascinating look at the history of American politics and the traditional family seen as the heart of the country. It is fascinating how so many government programs originally designed to protect the traditional family are now a threat to it!
It also has some interesting insights into economics since it speaks often of the "living wage" and single income families as well as the New Deal and other economic issues.
I may have worked for ISI, but I find I greatly prefer novels to non-fiction, lol. All of those wonderful resources available for free, and I have a hard time making myself read it! However, I managed to make it through that one by making it my "van book." If the boys fall asleep and I want to let them nap in the van, I can pull it out. It really was a good read (and not all that long).
Part of my attraction to home schooling is the idea that I can educate myself through educating my children when the time comes in subjects like economics, philosophy, etc...
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I love ISI, too. My husband was a Weaver Fellow while he was at Cambridge, and he's been doing their honors colloquia, or whatever they're called (last summer's was in Quebec) for the past few years, off and on -- and getting new ISI books in the mail all the time.
I love the Creed and Culture/Touchstone reader. We have a bunch of those "Student's Guides To" books as well, though I haven't made myself sit down and read them. I'm more a novel person, too.
I'm following this with interest, as we have to do economics here in the next couple of years . . . thanks for the good suggestions.
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Wow, Sally, that's so great. My experience as a student at those conferences had such a profound impact on my life (including my conversion to Catholicism not to mention meeting and marrying my dh)! What a blessing all the great teachers like your husband are! I'll have to ask around a bit next time I visit dh at work (or even ask dh, since he might know your dh as well even though he rarely travels to attend conferences now).
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Well, I'm sure they know all the same people! I've been having fun corresponding this year with a young guy named Nathaniel Peters, who was a student at last summer's honors thing and met my husband -- he's one of the current Junior Fellows at First Things, and I do some writing for them off and on. He's clearly been the person assigned to email me periodically to make sure I'm still alive and thinking of sending them whatever article I said I'd do, months earlier . . . Anyway, if he's any indication, all the people who pass through these ISI programs are just way impressive. I think maybe I had a pulse when I was 21.
Anyway, back to economics. I hadn't thought about pulling out Russell Kirk, et al., to satisfy that requirement (see: at 21 I had a pulse, above). But now I will.
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Russell Kirk is a good idea for both government and economics.
Another good resource for highschool students might be The Russell Kirk Center
It also links back to alot of his videos and recorded lectures available at isi.org. They also have some essays that might be of interest and are really accessible to a novel reader like myself, lol.
I looked at your blog, and your dh looked familiar to me, and my dh said he knew him. He knows his name, lol, but I don't want to ask since you don't put real names on your blog.
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