Lending Library

The South Carolina Council on Economic Education's Lending Library
allows educators to use (at no charge) videos and books covering topics.

To order a video or book from the SCCEE Lending Library, e-mail the Council at sccee@moore.sc.edu and include the name of the item you wish to borrow as well as your name, address, phone number and e-mail address.

Please Note: only one Book or Video may be checked out at a time.

SCEEE will mail out the item you've requested, along with any supplements, within one business week. Videos must be mailed back to SCCEE within one week of receipt. Books must be mailed back to ACEE within three weeks of receipt .
 
If the material is not received by SCCEE within a reasonable time period, the teacher will be billed the full price of the materials plus shipping & handling.

Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations VHS (28 minutes, © 2000)

In 1776, Adam Smith, the great Scottish economist and moral philosopher, published his classic work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations . From his childhood in Scotland through his university days in Oxford and on to his academic career, the film examines the events and influences that made Adam Smith the father of economics. The film delineates the original brilliance of Adam Smith's ideas that culminated in his masterwork, The Wealth of Nations. Students come to understand the central concepts that Smith presented in The Wealth of Nations, and they see how those concepts made our modern world possible.

Is America #1? From the Stossel in the Classroom Series (2002) – VHS and DVD

Why is America so rich, while India is so poor? Stossel shows you thousands of bureaucratic forms which Indians fill out in the hopes of getting licenses to start a business, a process which takes years. Large numbers of enterprising Indians gave up, emigrated to America , started businesses and helped create millions of jobs.

In Hong Kong -- which has no natural resources, a population density that is 20 times that of India and an average income higher than Britain, Canada and Australia -- Stossel shows you how easy it is to start a business: he just fills out one form, rents a booth in a mall, and presto!

Stossel shows you how European welfare states have throttled business enterprise, and he talks with French and German entrepreneurs who now thrive in America . He shows that while America has problems, other countries have worse problems, and even America 's poor people typically have clean water, a roof over their head, a color TV, a microwave oven and a car. Stossel interviews new citizens who express great passion for economic liberty and the American dream.

Economics is Everywhere by Daniel Hamermesh (book)

The purpose of Economics Is Everywhere is to illustrate the wide range of daily activities to which an economic way of thinking can be applied. Each of the 401 vignettes is inspired by an everyday event that students came up with or were inspired by news articles, films, personal life or popular culture. The book is organized into three parts to follow the topical arrangement of a typical introductory microeconomics textbook. These vignettes apply what students learn in their introductory microeconomics textbook. They focus on the student's ability to apply formal analysis with myriad of examples that come out of their daily activities. After studying this applications/issues book, students will be able to read a newspaper or magazine and understand their own daily activities in a new, economic way---and as a result understand the economics at work around them.