Our mission is to inspire students to explore the dynamics of a market economy through understanding the central role of economic freedom, property rights, and the rule of law in promoting progress and prosperity in America and around the world.

Our goal is to connect intellectually hungry speech and debate students with the already well-established world of free-market scholarship. High school and homeschool students deserve an opportunity to learn how free societies work and why they are just.

Debate students are idea-leaders among their peers, and will continue as strong leaders in college and their professional careers. The core of Economic Thinking is developing connections between free-market groups and high school and homeschool students who invest huge amounts of time and intellectual energy in thinking about public policy issues.

Your donation goes directly toward providing market-oriented workshops, books, videos, study guides, and online resources to students, teachers and parents.

• Workshops
• Books/Videos
• Online classes

Economic Thinking is a program of E Pluribus Unum Films, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the highest use of all media in economics education.

Thousands of students, teachers, and parents have attended our Economic Thinking workshops in Washington state, California, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida.

Our Staff

Gregory Rehmke has a degree in Economics from the University of Washington and has worked with the Reason Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Center for the American Idea, and the Foundation for Economic Education. In addition to directing programs for Economic Thinking, Mr. Rehmke directs student programs for the Grassroot Institute and consults on student programs for the Foundation for Economic Education. He is a member of the Mackinac Center Board of Scholars and has written on environmental topics for PERC Reports, a newsletter of the Political Economy Research Center (renamed the Property and Environment Research Center) in Bozeman, Montana. He has written over one hundred articles on public policy topics as well as published resource books, study guides, and newsletters focused on the economic aspects of over twenty years of high school and homeschool debate topics.
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Conrad Denke, President of E Pluribus Unum Filmsand CEO and owner of the Victory Studios, has been in the film and video business for over 30 years. Mr. Denke has a degree in Radio/Television Communications and Psychology from the University of Washington. He served four years in the Air Force as a cameraman/director for the 5th Air Force Pacific Command and made films in Korea, Japan, The Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Viet Nam. In 1973 Denke was a cameraman for Operation Homecoming, documenting the POW releases from Hanoi, North Viet Nam. In 1978, he and his wife Laura started American Production Services.

As a producer, Denke has worked in several arenas including documentaries, corporate, children's programming, TV talk shows, and feature length television movies. He recently completed five years as co-executive producer on a series of public affairs documentaries for PBS entitled "National Desk." His most recent program: "Education in America: A Public Right Gone Wrong" was aired in January 2000.

He formed a new non-profit organization E Pluribus Unum Films to produce market-oriented documentary and dramatic programming for television and to pursue other economic education efforts. In August, 2003, Economic Thinking was launched as a program of E Pluribus Unum Films, to combine a successful series of workshops and publications for students with website and multimedia outreach on economics and public policy issues.

Gabriella Megyesi is the Paul Heyne Fellow in Economic Education at Economic Thinking, and is available for teacher training programs and guest talks to students in America. Gabriella Megyesi teaches economics at the Britannica International School in Budapest, Hungary. Ms. Megyesi tells students of the everyday difficulties under socialism in Hungary, and also the problems faced in the transition to a market economy. Economic principles are illustrated through active learning activities that engage students and allow them to experience economic forces first-hand.

Her experiences provide lively examples of the contrast between socialist promises and reality. In addition, her presentations offer students insights into the problems of the transition to a market economy. With an emphasis on trade, international and environmental issues, her presentations are popular and valuable for high school, homeschool, and college students