{"id":196,"date":"2026-08-16T03:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercyamwell.com\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:27:28","slug":"economics-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mercyamwell.com\/?page_id=196","title":{"rendered":"Economics for Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In their site, Durham University describes the study of economics as ‘not only about money, numbers or mathematics. It’s another way of looking at the world.<\/strong> To truly understand economics, you will also study aspects of politics, history, psychology and sociology.’<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts from the Speech on Lesson Plans – By Deena<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ice Breaker: Why some countries are rich; and some, poor? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Grandpa talks about his times, 1960s; when 1 litre petrol was Rs 3.60. Are increase in prices here to stay?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reservations:<\/strong> There may be apprehensions on introducing this subject to STEM students as being akin to opening up a front that may fuel restlessness among the youth; lowering their employability in terms of compliance with organizational rules and behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, the counter arguments are heavily in favor, more so due to the current transience to AI driven organizations and economies<\/strong>. After all, with Democracies having lowered voting rights to age 18 while in India, the age of marriage has been raised to 21 – there remains a hunger in youth that goes beyond Science and Arts to understand the System of the World they are entering into.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Quite right. After all, what is Education without Financial Literacy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Study of Economics may therefore be presented as Systems by which nations trade with each other as well as Sub-systems within nations.<\/strong> A basic example of Systems being the Trade in Energy such as Oil; Garment Exports and IT services. For Subsystems the choicest topics may be Farm Economies, Housing and Real Estate as well as any of the steel based industry, typically automobiles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ice Breaker: In this day and age, why do we have wars? What are the main causes<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Proposed ‘Economics for Schools is available for those interested.<\/strong><\/strong> It includes, apart from the Chart of Topics,<\/strong> corresponding writeups and examples, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Review<\/strong> by V. Dinesh, MA Economics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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