Hansen, W. Lee; Salemi, Michael K.; Siegfried, John J. - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2001
America's adult population is economically illiterate. College economics instruction must shoulder some of the blame … for this situation. Forty percent of all college graduates take an economics course. Over 95 percent of principles of … economics students do not continue on to major in economics, however. For them, introductory economics is a terminal course. To …