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IB Economics: Home

General Economics Websites

Econ 1 - Our Course Site - login required
Econ 1 - our course site based on a moodle server - login with your student number and password. If not enrolled see Mr. Thomson for the enrollment key
IB Economics
A website designed for IB Economics students.
Key Economic Concepts
A list of economic concepts from the Economics Web Institute.
Journal of Economic Perspectives
The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) attempts to fill a gap between the general interest press and most other academic economics journals.
IMF Direct - The IMF Blog
The Global Economic Forum of the International Monetary Fund - lots of different economic topics get addressed here

Supply and Demand

Pop Up Economics - Tim Harford

Exam Prep

Note that the IB exams are not mulitple choice like many online reviews

Some of the Practice Test Question links do not work some do

Exam Tips
IB Economics Review Material
Some links do not work
More Material

Trial, Error and the God Complex - Tim Harford

Find Out How Economics Can Get You a Date!

How a Prison Camp Recession explains the Economy

Extended Essay Help

Here are some links that might help you with the extended essay in Economics

Economics Textbook

Economics: Developed Specifically for the IB Diploma
Sean Maley & Jason Welker
Pearson

Chapter Quizzes

Economics Videos

Articles on Economics - Mostly from Wikipedia

Elasticity
Arc Elasticity
Monopoly
Perfect Competition
Monopolistic Competition
Oligopoly
Lorenz Curve
Poverty in Canada
HDI article
Democracy and Economic Growth? Ted Talk
Pop Up Economics Podcasts by Tim Harfod
UNICEF Report of Child Poverty in Canada
Christmas Price Index
Christmas Economics
Behavioural Economics
DSGE Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium - modelling economies
Ostrom - Managing the Commons
Book on Milton Friedmand in PDF
From the Fraser Institute
CBC Podcast on Adam Smith
Essential Scholars
A collection of online books on Adam Smith, John Locke, Milton Friedman and others.
From the Fraser Institute

Articles of Interest

Pain at the Pump
Economic Questions
Big Fail
Tax Annoying People
Measuring Poverty 1
Measuring Poverty 2
Measuring Poverty 3
Rich and the Rest of Us
POW Camp Economics
An article written about the economy that developed in a WW2 POW camp
Ways Economists say I Love You
Measuring Child Poverty -rich countries
Beer Wars
HDI Ex
HDI Ex
How to Save the European Union
Dark Satanic Mills
Future-proof: Preparing young Canadians for the future of work

Accessing Databases

Accessing Databases

G8

Student Worksheet

Garibaldi Secondary School, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada