OAFEE SEMINARS

The Office for the Advancement of Free Enterprise Education offers seminars under three main programs:

Economics for Heroes: The goal of the Economics for Heroes (EFH) programs is to present a series of two-day, face-to-face, web-supported seminars on personal finance and free-market economics for Wisconsin’s heroes - military veterans, and police officers - as a way to improve their financial well-being and to increase their understanding of free enterprise.

Economics for Opinion Leaders: The goal of the Economics for Opinion Leaders (EFOL) programs is to present a series of two-day, face-to-face, web-supported seminars on free-market economics for Wisconsin opinion leaders - teachers, elected officials and media professionals - to increase their understanding of free enterprise and enable them to responsibly share that knowledge with the groups they serve.

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Teaching Economics in American History: The goal of the Teaching Economics in American History (TEAH) program is to improve the economic understanding of Wisconsin and Midwest teachers and students by presenting a large-scale workshop to American history teachers, providing them with the instructional tools they need to teach basic economics. The curriculum provided is the award-winning text Economic Episodes in American History.

The topics presented in each EFH, EFOL & TEAH seminar may include, but are not limited to:

Personal Finance

• Building Wealth for the Long Term

• You and Your Money

• Earning More Income

• Taking Control of Your Finances

• Managing Credit:  Parts 1 & 2

• Saving and Investing for the Long Term

• Scams & Identity Theft

• How Can You Better Manage Risk?

Economics

• Why are Some Nations Rich:

  Mystery Nations

• Economic Way of Thinking

• The Numbers Every Citizen Should Know

• The Economics of Education:​

  Investing in Human Capital

• Property Rights:  

  The Most Fundamental Freedom?

• Be Nice to the Price

• Pulling Back the Curtain on the Federal Reserve System

• Debt, Deficits, & Entitlements

• Why Trade?

• Can Marginal Thinking Help You Make Better Decisions?

• What Caused the U.S. Economy to Melt Down?

• Why is Good Economics Bad Politics?

Economics in American History

• How the Economic Way of Thinking Can Improve the Teaching of History

• Why Would Free People Sell Themselves into Bondage?

• Why Did the Colonists Succeed Economically Without Finding Gold & Silver?

• Why Did the Colonists Fight When They Were Safe, Prosperous and Free?

• Economics of the Constitution

• The Homestead Act of 1862: Was Free Land a Good Deal?

• Hard Money or a Cross of Gold? Problems Down on the Farm

• Industrialization, Robber Barons and Monopolies

• Panics and the Beginning of the Fed

• Why Did a Mild Recession in 1929 Become the Great Depression of the 1930's?

• Who Desegregated Major League Baseball? Jackie Robinson or Adam Smith?

• Is Free Trade Out of Date?