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Most Fraser Institute publications are available free of charge on this website. Teachers who purchase print copies of our material receive a 40% discount. |
Fraser Institute publications that are helpful for students and teachers:
What Everyone Should Know About Economics & Prosperity
By James D. Gwartney and Richard L. Stroup
Adapted for Canadian readers by Michael A. Walker
Looking for a brief, up-to-date, non-intimidating, and fact-filled guide to the essentials of free market economics? Here's an easy-to-read book that won't have your students memorizing formulas or mastering details that are important only to professional economists.
Economic Freedom of the World: 2007 Annual Report
By James Gwartney and Robert Lawson with Neil Emerick
The work of the Economic Freedom of the world was developed by Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman and Michael Walker through a series of conferences hosted from 1986 to 1994. The challenge was to prove Milton Friedman’s assertion that economically free nations produce better lives for their citizens. Eventually this resulted in the first report on worldwide economic freedom.
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Since then the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World index has become a key research tool, used around the world to investigate the impact of economic freedom. From Albania to Zimbabwe, this book contains a wealth of statistics and trends from over 123 countries, useful for classroom discussions in economics, geography or social studies. You can assign each of your students a nation to study and have them compare their data with their classmates. For more advanced grade levels, use this book to discuss issues like: Why are some countries rich while others are poor? How does economic freedom relate to political freedom? What are the best ways to spread freedoms throughout the globe?
Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children about the Environment
(Canadian Edition)
Michael Sanera and Jane S. Shaw
Adapted for Canadian readers by Liv Fredricksen and Laura Jones
How can parents help their children reach informed and balanced opinions on the multitude of issues and ideas that are collectively called
"environmentalism"? This book is a good starting point as it calls into question many of the assumptions that have seeped into popular culture through constant repetition. From endangered species, to forests, to climate change there is often a feeling that all the trends are negative and nothing can be done about them. This book provides a different viewpoint for young people to consider.
Other Online Book Resources
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Permission to reprint in whole or in part is granted for classroom use provided the publication title, the authors, and The Fraser Institute are properly cited. (For any other use of this material, please seek written permission from The Fraser Institute by contacting the Director of Publication Production, kristin.mccahon@fraserinstitute.org).
