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  • What Are Goods and Services?

    Carolyn Andrews

    Library Binding (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 30, 2008)
    An introduction to various types of goods and services discusses production, consumers' wants and needs, scarcity and surplus, specialization, and different types of economies.
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  • What Are Goods and Services?

    Carolyn Andrews

    Paperback (Crabtree Publishing Company, Sept. 1, 2008)
    Children are consumers, too, though they often do not realize it. This illustrated book helps youngsters understand the concepts of goods and services so that they recognize their role in the cycle of commerce.
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  • What Are Taxes?

    Baron Bedesky

    Library Binding (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 30, 2008)
    Learn what taxes are, why they are needed (to keep governements from local to federal running), and how they are used to dissuade people from buying items.
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  • What Is Supply and Demand?

    Gare Thompson

    Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Nov. 30, 2009)
    Introduces the concept of supply and demand, describing how it works to regulate an open market, and also discusses economic competition and government participation in the economy.
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  • What Is Trade?

    Carolyn Andrews

    Paperback (Crabtree Publishing Company, Sept. 1, 2008)
    This title carefully explains how countries around the world engage in trade.
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  • What is Scarcity of Resources?

    Jessica Cohn

    Library Binding (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 30, 2008)
    Describes economic scarcity and explains how consumers make economic choices concerning the use and distribution of ecnomically scarce items, including capital and natural resources.
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  • Saving & Investing

    Breann Rumsch

    Library Binding (Checkerboard Library, Sept. 1, 2012)
    Keywords: action, economy, investing, saving Pages: 32 Published: 2012-08 Language: English Category: Money, Social Situations, Children's ISBN-10: 1617834904 ISBN-13: 9781617834905 Binding: Library Bi (Unabridged) List Price: 27.07 USD
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  • Money Matters

    Breann Rumsch

    Library Binding (Checkerboard Library, Aug. 1, 2012)
    This informative yet approachable title gives students a clear understanding of why Money Matters and encourages them to take part in the Economy in Action! With plenty of kid-friendly examples, topics range from scarcity, budgets, unemployment, and taxes to the history of money, how money is created, and credit & debt. By examining money and its value, students will be armed with the tips and tools they need for fiscal fitness. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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  • What Is Scarcity of Resources?

    Jessica Cohn

    Paperback (Crabtree Publishing Company, Sept. 1, 2008)
    This text describes resources to younger readers, including capital resources and natural resources. Emphasis is placed on how most resources are of limited supply, so producers and consumers must make choices when things they want or need become scarce.
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  • What Are Taxes?

    Baron Bedesky

    Paperback (Crabtree Publishing Company, Sept. 1, 2008)
    This is a volume designed to inform children what taxes are and why they are needed. Emphasis is placed on how taxes provide the funds needed to keep governments running, from local to federal levels.
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  • What is Trade?

    Carolyn Andrews

    Library Binding (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 30, 2008)
    Learn how countries around the world engage in trade; learn the tariffs, trade agreements, and trade embargoes.
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  • Home Economics in Action: Textiles

    Judith Christian-Carter, Bridget Crabtree

    Paperback (Oxford University Press, April 21, 1988)
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