Study attempts to measure the effect of behavioral objectives on learning outcomes using the Test of Economic Understanding, Form B. There was no significant effect. (SE)

The combination of consumer mathematics and economics has the potential to make a sizable contribution in preparing students to become effective consumers. Students must understand economic as well as mathematical concepts, and consumers need to adapt to changing economic conditions and life styles. (JOW)

Examines findings from four recent studies which examined the economic content in undergraduate business school programs. Changes in the number of schools requiring advanced economics courses, differences in economics credit-hour requirements, and the significance of the economics department's placement within or outside of the business school are…

Outlines a series of practical goals for secondary economics education in Canada. Economic education should ask more analytic questions. (RM)

Examines educational backgrounds of authors of 87 international economics textbooks published from 1945 to 1974. About 80 percent of the authors received graduate training at American universities; all but one held a doctoral degree. Those trained at Harvard or Columbia comprised 38 percent of the total, an indication of institutional domination…

Candyconomy is a technique that uses a single commodity to illustrate several basic concepts in economics such as scarcity and choice, opportunity cost, trade-offs and decision-making, exchange, supply and demand, and equilibrium. The example has been used with over 5,000 elementary and secondary students. (JOW)

Discusses how economics professors at the University of Cincinnati have spent years fighting among themselves over teaching versus research, with the result being decimation and disarray in the department. (EV)

Discusses financial literacy, its definition, and its importance. Looks at the financial literacy initiatives that are underway and whether they are working. Examines the role of family and consumer sciences education in financial literacy. (Contains 70 references.) (JOW)

Generative learning provides students with opportunities to organize course content, integrate new content with students' current knowledge, and elaborate on course content by making connections to real-world events. These opportunities promote less reliance on professors' lectures and simultaneously create more self-reliance among students. The…

The excess burden of taxation typically has two graphical representations in undergraduate microeconomics and public finance textbooks: the IC/BC (indifference curve/budget constraint) representation and the demand/supply representation. The IC/BC representation has the advantage of showing the behavioral response to a distortionary tax and how a…

In intermediate microeconomic textbooks the reciprocal nature of externalities is presented using numerical examples of costs and benefits. This treatment of the Coase theorem obscures the fact that externality costs and benefits are best understood as being on a continuum where costs vary with the degree of intensity of the externality. When…

Most children have heard that money does not grow on trees. But it does on paper--in books! This column features paired book titles and related activities that can be used in the classroom or the library media center to celebrate National Coin Week in April. Time devoted to students while sharing books on money and its uses will be well spent.

The author argues that, although the standard principles level treatment of fixed and sunk costs has problems, it is logically consistent as long as all fixed costs are assumed to be sunk costs. As long as the instructor makes that assumption clear to students, the costs of making the changes recently suggested by X. Henry Wang and Bill Z. Yang in…

Examines the pricing and other characteristics of books. Notes substantial increases in book prices between 2000 and 1985 data. Suggests a major factor is the increasing importance of foreign presses that sell books at higher prices. Indicates that discount on paperbacks appear to have been relatively stable in the two years studied. (JEH)

For some time now, it has been the posture of major league baseball that taxpayers should bear some or all of the cost of new stadiums. They argue that the community will benefit both economically and psychologically from such an investment. A stadium, they claim, will bring new jobs, increased land values, enhanced tax collections, and perhaps…