From WTVD: An economics quiz at Kings Mountain High School asked students: “If Josh is trying to become a drug dealer, he is going to need some supplies like glassware…
Stephen Walters writes for the Martin Center about millennials’ apparent fascination with socialism. Most troubling to the economically literate are surveys revealing millennials’ high level of comfort with socialism: at…
Mitch’s post of George Mason University economist Donald Boudreaux’s piece for the Martin Foundation made me wonder: What kind of law professor could be so averse to the discipline of economics? And…
George Mason University economist Donald Boudreaux writes for the Martin Center about the continuing need for economics education. In an article published recently in the Atlantic, “The Curse of Econ…
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with Wingate University economist Peter Frank about his goals for the Free Enterprise Now curriculum. Becki Gray’s Daily Journal explains…
The free-enterprise system plays a critical role in our lives, but most students learn little accurate information about that system during middle school and high school. That’s one of the…
In this Cato@Liberty post, Roger Pilon points out that the woman who spearheaded Seattle’s minimum wage increase holds a PhD in economics from State. I’m pretty sure that nobody in…
In this Freeman piece, economics professor Sandy Ikeda discusses the risible idea raised by an economics prof in Britain (along with a number of so-called students) that universities stop teaching…
Thomas Sowell, author of a text on Basic Economics, uses his latest column to probe differences in the way students learn economics in college classrooms. One professor taught the subject…
The Ludwig von Mises Institute is offering an 8 week course taught by Professor Robert Murphy. It only costs $145. Read about it here. This is emblematic of a trend…
Duke Professor Mike Munger is teaching an economics class for non-majors. I can’t wait to listen to the podcasts of his class speakers; Munger says he will post the remarks.…
There’s some delicious irony in this Weekly Standard blog about several Leftie students who walked out of a Harvard economics class because, well, they’re Leftists showing their solidarity with the Occupiers.…