Worksheet from “Choice: Economics Materials for Success”

Worksheet for Incentives & Unintended consequences (Why do Shein and Temu ship packages from Chinese factories directly to U.S. shoppers?)

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I hope that you had a wonderful summer and are ready for the new academic year.

I will continue to post one worksheet per week. As always, I will focus on recent, relevant and interesting news stories that illustrate economic concepts covered in introductory Economics courses. I hope that you will enjoy the selected articles and will find the questions useful.

Please feel free to provide feedback and ideas. I would appreciate it if you could share links to articles that you believe would be appropriate for an engaging worksheet that could be used in Principles of Economics courses.

Have a successful academic year and have fun teaching and learning!

The following is the first worksheet that I have for you this year:

·      Worksheet for Incentives and Unintended consequences based on the articles Shein’s tax perk is as American as apple pie (Reuters, June 21, 2024) and Amazon is launching a Shein and Temu competitor (Quartz, June 2024): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m9TXQW0AwcM536Ku3knElCnn_m5GT1nU/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100480691374776403328&rtpof=true&sd=true

Thank you very much!

Kind regards,

Stefani