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You Decide – Money Allocation Game

Updated: August 31 2023,
Author: Council for Economic Education
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Concepts

Money Management, Opportunity Cost, Scarcity, Trade-offs among Goals



You Decide...

- Money Allocation -
Subjects:
Economics

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