What Economics Should We Teach Before College, If Any?

Helen Roberts () and Deirdre N. McCloskey

The Journal of Economic Education, 2012, vol. 43, issue 3, 293-299

Abstract: Economics can be taught much earlier than we usually imagine, as a life skill, with direct experience, from kindergarten on. An experiential, early-grades economics of budgets, buying, and giving-up-to-get may be better than the politically inspired insistence that students get an allegedly healthy dose of free-market ideology just before they are old enough to vote.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2012.686396

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