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Video Links

1.  Behavioral Economics at Work

This 25-minute video explains how behavioral economic principles can be utilized in the workplace to encourage low-income workers to save.

Learning Objectives 11-2 and 11-3

2. Can Money Buy Happiness?

This ten-minute clip explains why there is not a clear positive correlation between money and happiness.

Learning Objective 11-4

3. How to Buy Happiness

This eleven-minute TedTalk by Michael Norton explains how pro-social spending can lead to happiness.

Learning Objective 11-4

 

Audio Links

1. How to Not Run Out of Money in Retirement

This four-minute podcasts covers some of the basics of saving for retirement.

Learning Objective 11-3

2. Strategies for When you are Starting Out Straddled with Student Debt

This podcast (4:34 minutes) provides some basic behaviors for conquering student loans.

Learning Objective 11-3

3. How do you Start Saving?  Your Tax Refund May be the Answer

This podcast (4:15 minutes) explains how those with little expendable income can still start saving for the future.

Learning Objective 11-3

Websites

1. The History of Money

This webpage provides a timeline on the history of money, from bartering to today.

Learning Objective 11-1

2. Teaching Kids about Money:  An Age-by-Age Guide

This webpage address the learning and developmental aspects of money.

Learning Objective 11-1

3. The Marketplace of Perceptions

This online article explains the nuts and bolts of behavioral economics, including why we buy and save.

Learning Objectives 11-2 and 11-3