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Commanding Heights Mike Raymer Program Manager

Commanding Heights Mike Raymer Program Manager. The Mission: To help teachers teach those students, K-12, in the public and independent schools of Georgia. The Vision: Students leaving school prepared for their roles as:. Productive Workers I nformed Consumers Involved Citizens

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Commanding Heights Mike Raymer Program Manager

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  1. Commanding Heights Mike Raymer Program Manager

  2. The Mission: To help teachers teach those students, K-12, in the public and independent schools of Georgia

  3. The Vision: Students leaving school prepared for their roles as: • Productive Workers • Informed Consumers • Involved Citizens • Prudent Savers • Wise Investors • Sound lifelong decision makers in a globally interdependent • world

  4. Video Chapter 1: Prologue

  5. Lesson 1: Globalization in 2011 Boeing Activity

  6. First Published in 1998 Made Into a Documentary in 2002

  7. www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/hi/index.html

  8. Who Should Control the “Commanding Heights” of the Economy?

  9. Major Focus: Rise of Free Markets and Globalization after WWII

  10. The Major Figures: John Maynard Keynes Friedrich von Hayek Milton Friedman Jeffrey Sachs Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher

  11. The Focus Countries

  12. Video Chapter 2: The Old Order Fails

  13. Three Characteristics of Globalization 1. Trade of goods and services 2. International flow of financial capital and investment. 3. Movement of people and labor.

  14. Mercantilism…1500-1776 EXPORT > import

  15. The Goal… Protect your markets through colonies, monopolies and conquests. Integration was NOT occurring. Free Trade=Bad

  16. Specialization Comparative Advantage Free Trade= Good

  17. First Era of Globalization (19th Century)…Major Innovations

  18. 19th Century Political Changes

  19. The Backlash World War I, Isolationism, Great Depression, Smoot-Hawley

  20. Lesson 2: Who Decides? The Economic Problem Because of SCARCITY choices must be made in all economic systems. Human wants are unlimited. Use a resource for this and you cannot use it for that. Every economic system MUST answer the three basic economic questions.

  21. Video Chapter 3: Communism on the Heights

  22. Lesson 3: Missing Markets and Missing Prices

  23. Video Chapter 20: The Bottom End of Globalism

  24. Where Sweatshops are a Dream

  25. www.gcee.org mraymer@gsu.edu

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