About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
WHY DO SOME SOCIETIES MAKE DISASTROUS ECONOMIC DECISIONS?
Objectives:
SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary source texts on the topic of Regulation vs. Deregulation with emphasis on building evidence-based reasoning skills necessary for course proficiency.
Citations:
Diamond, Jared (2005). Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed. New York: Penguin Books (pgs. 419-441)
http://cpor.org/ce/Diamond(2005)Collapse-HowSocietiesChooseFailureSuccess.pdf
Ted Talks – Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change (25:20 mins) (February 2017)
https://ted.com/talks/al_gore/the_case_for_optimism_on_climate_change/up-next
Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life On U.S. Lands – The New York Times
How a Conservative TV Giant Is Ridding Itself of Regulation-
