AdamSmithWorks Lesson Plans

Original, classroom-ready activities to use with your students TODAY.

What Motivates Us?

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.

The Invisible Hand, Spontaneous Order, and a Pizza

How is an economy organized?

And what can Adam Smith- and a pizza- teach us?

What Would Adam Smith Say?

About greed? About morality?

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