All Posts Tagged With: "economic education"

Hurricanes Are Creative Destruction?

My employer, Loyola College, is a Jesuit institution and, as such, encourages its students to participate in myriad community-service programs. In teaching introductory economics, I propose on the first day of class a marriage of economic education and community service. I offer to give students aluminum baseball bats with which they will walk through the [...]

1Feb2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

Flunking Economics

Why should we care about economic literacy? Are we troubled by illiteracy in physics? Or metaphysics? Should we worry that most of us can’t remember much of the periodic chart of the elements? Why should we worry more about economics? Because economic illiteracy is dangerous. I can ride on a roller coaster without understanding centrifugal [...]

1Apr1999 | | 2 comments | Continued

Smoke Got in Their Eyes

Economics pervades life. Many people (not Freeman readers) will misinterpret that remark to mean that money is all that’s important. That common misinterpretation testifies to the dearth of economic education in America. To say economics pervades life is the same as saying that choice pervades life. Everything we do volitionally requires that we choose one [...]

1Mar1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Nature and Significance of Economic Education

For many years I have been fascinated by what at first glance seems a paradoxical feature in Ludwig von Mises’s attitude to the economics he taught. I believe that this seeming paradox in the life and work of my revered teacher can provide us with the key to understanding the role of economic education (and, [...]

1Oct1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

All the World’s a Classroom

Economic education can happen any time, any place, at any age. Economics is the study of action and its implications for production and exchange. As such, it is accessible to children from an early age. Since every child acts, chooses, and exchanges, nothing is more within the reach of children than the basics of economics [...]

1Aug1998 | | 1 comment | Continued

Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values, and the Meaning of Life

It’s impossible not to relish a book whose author, early on and with only slight rephrasing, reveals the real message in the famous Bismarckian maxim from John Kennedy’s inaugural address: “Ask not what I can do for you. Ask what you can do for me.” Upon reading this line, I knew that the next 200 [...]

1May1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

Two Cases of Press Malpractice

Dr. Machan, this month’s guest editor, is a professor of philosophy at Auburn University, Alabama. His next book, A Primer on Ethics, will be published later this year by the University of Oklahoma Press. 1. The Wells Fargo Affair In late January, Wells Fargo Bank acquired First Interstate Bank of California in what the press [...]

1Sep1996 | | 0 comments | Continued

Education and the Free Society

Dr. Roche is president of Hillsdale College and author of 12 books. His latest book is The Fall of the Ivory Tower: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education (Regnery Publishing, 1994). From 1966 to 1971, he was director of seminars at the Foundation for Economic Education. From 1971 to 1990, he [...]

1May1996 | | 1 comment | Continued
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