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    • People choose
    • Every choice has a cost
    • Benefit/cost analysis is useful
    • Incentives matter
    • Exchange benefits the traders
    • Markets work with competition, information, incentives, and property rights
    • Skills and knowledge influence income
    • Monetary and fiscal policies affect people's choices
    • Government policies have benefits and costs
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Nine Principles

These are the economics principles that CCEE, with the help of teachers and business and labor leaders, has decided will most help students use the economic way of thinking to succeed in today's (and tomorrow's) economy.

  • 1 People choose
  • 2 Every choice has a cost
  • 3 Benefit/cost analysis is useful
  • 4 Incentives matter
  • 5 Exchange benefits the traders
  • 6 Markets work with competition, information, incentives, and property rights
  • 7 Skills and knowledge influence income
  • 8 Monetary and fiscal policies affect people's choices
  • 9 Government policies have benefits and costs

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