High School Economics Texts and the American Economy

Herbert J. Gans

Challenge, 2015, vol. 58, issue 3, 241-250

Abstract: More than half of high school students study economics. But what have they learned? This remarkably resourceful author finds that they learn about economics but not the economy. There are some mentions of poverty and the minimum wage but none of insider trading and downsizing in these texts, but a lot about the basic tools of neoclassical economics. Is that the right curriculum for a nation dealing with high unemployment and inequality? Gans thinks not.

Date: 2015
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/05775132.2015.1028786 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mes:challe:v:58:y:2015:i:3:p:241-250

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/MCHA20

DOI: 10.1080/05775132.2015.1028786

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Challenge from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().