Focuses on Mass Social Studies frameworks: (General Economics:
14,15,18,19,20) See also US I Tour for other visiting options.
Vocabulary/concepts to know ahead of time - Economies of scale -
Cost/benefit analysis - Opportunity cost Overview – Economics of
the Shakers Shakers traded outside the community, buying pottery
jugs and other items they did not produce. Office Deacons, or
Trustees, handled business with the outside world. Shakers were
known for their honesty. Merchants who bought wholesale
quantities of Shaker products in the 1800s traveled to the
Trustee’s Office to transact business, and visitors to the
Village often stopped at the store to buy a memento of their
trip. Shaker Office Sisters sold brooms, baskets, postcards,
cloaks and confections like sugared walnuts – simple, well-made
items produced by Brothers and Sisters in the communal family.
The term “fancy goods” referred to the products’ excellence, not
to decorative quality. English Quaker William S. Warder
described the wares he saw for sa