Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo parte de los resultados de la Encuesta de Competencias Financieras (ECF), en un intento de contribuir a la mejora de los diseños de políticas de educación financiera, y persigue varios objetivos: (i) cuantificar los conocimientos financieros de los individuos,...

In this short essay Hodgson denounces the superficiality in the teaching of economics and agrees with the student protests which have urged deep academic reforms. He also censures the absence of plurality and tolerance in teaching methods and argues that excessive mathematical formulation,...

This article shows the report presented by the Commission on Graduate Education in Economics in 1991 to the American Economic Association, it focuses on the extent to which graduate education in economic may have become too isolated from real economic problems. The report analyzes the first year...