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Big news: We’ve updated and expanded our popular Supply & Demand unit plan!
Now 7 full days of lesson plans, videos, interactives, and more.
And it’s FREE…solve for the equilibrium.
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My thoughts on the much-deserving Robert E. Hall: marginalrevolution.com/margi…
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The Nobel Prize Goes to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford - marginalrevolution.com/margi…
TEACHERS - Get our new FREE class exercise on Inflation in the Revolutionary War. US teachers also get free Continental currency for signing in!
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Inflation might be in the news, but it isn’t new. The Continental Congress learned about it the hard way when the country’s first fiat currency became nearly worthless during the war. Washington complained, “A waggon load of money will scarcely purchase a waggon load of provision.” (Fortunately for Washington, Gs were free back then.)
Our new class exercise uses primary sources and historical data to share that lesson with your students. Get it (and all of MRU’s inflation resources) for free today!
"The Surveillance System Nobody Voted For" - Valay Kelkar
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"Do Wealth Taxes Actually Make Rich People Leave?" - Mi Liu (False Profit)
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Rent Control: The Ceiling Trap!
A fabulous new website reviewing the history, economics and empirics of rent control from Friedman and Stigler through Diamond, McQuade & Qian.
mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/Rent…
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GET a FREE game kit with everything you need to play!
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Send your students to the Public Choice Outreach Conference, a crash course in public choice!
🚨APPLICATION DEADLINE THIS FRI!
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"I really can't recommend the fellowship enough" - MRU High School Fellow Andrew Liu
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Zimbabwe already tried this and it does not work!
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"I really can't recommend the fellowship enough" - MRU High School Fellow Andrew Liu
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📢Calling all US high school students!
We are looking for the next generation of econ content creators! Think that could be you? Apply to the MRU High School Fellowship NOW! Deadline to apply is April 10th, 2026.
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Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations turns 250 this year.
This evening, the @GeorgeMasonU Department of Economics hosts Wealth of Nations 250: The Long Arc of Smithian Economics, exploring how Smith’s ideas continue to shape modern political economy and research on markets and institutions.
The program features Mercatus scholars @PeterBoettke and Daniel Klein, alongside Donald Boudreaux and @MarkKoyama.
📅 Today, February 18, 2026
🕔 5:00 to 6:30 PM EST, reception to follow
📍 Merten Hall, George Mason University (Fairfax, VA)
🎥 Livestream available
Learn more or join online:
economics.gmu.edu/events/176…
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5pm, Merten Hall 1204, livestreamed, with four speakers from the world's leading department for Smithian thought:
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No Valentine this year🌹💔? This could be why! ⬇️⬇️
#ValentinesDay #vday
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