Actions and Results
Lots of people have lost a lot of money in various
pyramid schemes:
www.fraudguides.com/ponzi_schemes.asp
Do not see interactions as zero-sum when they are not:
www.learningfountain.com/busnzero.htm
(The above two sections treat material in a way that is
very unconventional in introductory economics, and so far I
have not found good sites for linking.)
The netmba.com site has a collection educational
materials. Here is a simple, standard exposition of the
production-possibilities frontier:
www.netmba.com/econ/micro/production/possibility/
One of the important insights that can be gotten from the
production-possibilities frontier is that exchange can
benefit both parties especially when they are very
different:
www.netmba.com/econ/micro/comparative-advantage/
Steven Landsburg wrote a funny but
thought-provoking essay on why he is not an
environmentalist:
www.shrubwalkers.com/prose/list/not.html
Garrett Hardin, who seems to be the one who invented the
term Tragedy of the Commons, explains the logic of the
commons:
www.econlib.org/library/Enc/TragedyoftheCommons.html
This site at MIT is too much fun not to mention. It lets
you put cows in the field and see what happens to
production:
plaza.mit.edu/econ/index.php?id=14
These links were checked on May 27, 2007
  
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