By introducing young learners to concepts like scarcity, trade-offs, and incentives, it equips them with the tools needed to ...

Teaching financial literacy stripped of economics leaves students with a collection of rules without the reasoning to apply ...

Just how important is money? Few would deny that it plays a key role in the economy.­ During the Great Depression of the 1930s, existing economic theory was unable either to explain the causes of the ...

Financial literacy deserves more attention in our schools, but not at the expense of economics, and not as a substitute for it (“Students Prepare for Real World With Personal Finance Classes,” ...