AdamSmithWorks Lesson Plans

Newly elected American President Elizabeth Montgomery faces an economic crisis.

The night before her State of the Union address, she is visited by the ghosts of Smith and John Maynard Keynes.

About greed? About morality?


Help students apply Adam Smith's ideas to contemporary issues.

Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, and David Hume

Over an imaginary dinner, the three they discuss their views regarding economics and the relationship between Great Britain and the American colonies.

Does Adam Smith contradict himself in his two major works???


In this lesson, the students test Smith’s ideas on sympathy by playing a famous game in economics and ethics known as the Ultimatum Game. 

How is an economy organized?
And what can Adam Smith- and a pizza- teach us?