This New York Federal Reserve Lesson plan explores globalization. Compelling Question: Why don’t we just make everything ourselves? Supporting Questions: 1. What are "absolute advantage" and "comparative advantage"? 2. What are some of the economic impacts of globalization?

This lesson plan allows students to examine location patterns of religious sites and understand their historical context.

The Scramble for Africa has contributed to economic, social, and political underdevelopment by spurring ethnic-tainted civil conflict and discrimination and by shaping the ethnic composition, size, shape and landlocked status of the newly independent states. This column, taken from a recent VoxEU eBook, summarizes the key findings of studies that use high-resolution geo-referenced data and econometric methods to estimate the long-lasting impact of the various aspects of the Scramble for Africa.