Competition Counts: How Consumers Win When Businesses Compete
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COMPETITION COUNTS: HOW CONSUMERS WIN WHEN BUSINESSES COMPETE explains that competition in America is about price, selection, and service and teaches students how they benefit through businesses keeping prices low and the quality and choice of goods and services high.
- Provider
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Author
- Federal Trade Commission
- Price
- Free
- Published / Released Year
- 2015
- Resource Categories
- Information
- Resource Type
- Booklet/Pamphlet, Downloadable resources
- Target Users
- Parent, home school, Student, self-directed study, Teacher, classroom or after school
- Grade Level
- 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, College & young adult
- Languages
- English
- Order Phone Number
- (877) 382-4357
- Jump$tart Standards
- None
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