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Productivity | Lesson Demo

Updated: July 31 2015,
Author: barrel jason
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Demand, Goods and Services, Productivity, Specialization
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This video models Lesson 8 from CEE’s High School Economics publication. Students participate in a pizza production simulation to determine the effects on labor productivity of specialization, the division of labor, and investment in human capital and capital goods. Students then apply what they have learned by analyzing several newspaper headlines.

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