Money in the Marketplace

Duration: 14

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1977

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses puppets, songs, and animation to show the function of money as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, and a store of value. Introduces the concept of barter and discusses the signficance of the marketplace and its relation to the circulation of money. Demonstrates that money is divisible, durable, portable, and acceptable., Provides an introduction to economics and basic money concepts. Uses a trip through a flea market to examine the ideas of marketplace, consumer, demand and value. Shows that money must be durable, portable and acceptable.

Complete Record: Uses puppets, songs, and animation to show the function of money as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, and a store of value. Introduces the concept of barter and discusses the signficance of the marketplace and its relation to the circulation of money. Demonstrates that money is divisible, durable, portable, and acceptable., , Provides an introduction to economics and basic money concepts. Uses a trip through a flea market to examine the ideas of marketplace, consumer, demand and value. Shows that money must be durable, portable and acceptable.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.