The scientific project analyzes the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria (USA: Brown University 2018)

Wikipedia gives an overview on the main aspects of ʺthe costs of democracyʺ (2018).

Study by Rahel Aichele and Gabriel Felbermayr (Bertelsmann-Stiftung 2015)

Political parties in the UK may be funded through membership fees, party donations or through state funding, the latter of which is reserved for administrative costs (2018).

The report from 2020 explains the chronic underfunding of early care and education in the U.S. (USA: Economic Policy Institute 2021).

What are the environmental and human costs underlying our current food consumption habits? This essential question is at the crux of this lesson plan (USA 2019).

Students will be able to: Describe the immediate benefits of a fiscal stimulus when an economy is in a recession. They explain the long-term costs of a fiscal stimulus when an economy is in a recession. By comparing the immediate benefits to the long-term costs, students will decide if a fiscal stimulus is warranted during recessions (USA: EconEd 2021).

Students will:Define globalization, growth, and poverty.Analyze data regarding the connection between poverty reduction, economic growth, and globalization.Summarize the benefits and costs associated with an increasingly global economy. (EconEd 2002-14)

Students compare and contrast the costs and benefits of trade in terms of job loss or creation (EconEd 2019).

Students participate in a group activity in which they are assigned a business. They use breakeven analysis to calculate the number of units that must be sold or at what price each unit needs to sell in order to recover the variable and fixed costs and eventually realize a profit (USA, EconEd 2017).