Knowledge has always been central to social and human life. In the past decades, new forms of knowledge and technologies have emerged constantly in the knowledge-based economy, a new stage of the capitalist economic system. The aims of our paper are to render in brief the theoretical approaches...

We have developed a computerized version of Charles Holt’s classical market game that can be used even in classes with a large audience. The Pit market game gives students intuitive access to the interaction of supply and demand in real-world markets. Even though trade can take place at...

The global financial crisis (GFC) led to increasing distrust in economic research and the economics profession, in the process of which the current state of economics and economic education in particular were heavily criticized. Against this background we conducted a study with undergraduate...

By conducting a discourse analysis (SKAD) in the field of academic economics textbooks, this paper aims at reconstructing frames and identity options offered to undergraduate students relating to the questions "Why study economics?"and "Who do I become by studying economics?". The analysis...

Nach der Einführung des eigenständigen Faches Wirtschaft/Berufs- und Studienorientierung im Jahr 2015 in Baden-Württemberg wurden Befürchtungen laut, durch das Fach würde das Denken der Schülerinnen und Schüler über ökonomische Zusammenhänge eingeengt. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden verschiedene Konstrukte finanzieller Bildung verglichen, um Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede herauszuarbeiten. Zum einen handelt es sich um das Verständnis von Financial Literacy, wie es von der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung...

Ökonomische Bildung 1.0 vermittelt Wirtschaftskunde. Ökonomische Bildung 2.0 vermittelt die sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive ökonomischen Denkens. Es geht um Theorie-'Bildung'. Zentral hierfür ist die spezifisch ökonomische Denkfigur nicht-intendierter Folgen intentionalen Handelns. Sie...

In a public good experiment, the paper analyses to which extent individuals with economic education behave differently in a second-order dilemma. Second-order dilemmas may arise, when individuals endogenously build up costly institutions that help to overcome a public good problem (first-order...

We use standardized end-of-course knowledge assessments to examine student learning during the disruptions induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining seven economics courses taught at four US R1 institutions, we find that students performed substantially worse, on average, in Spring 2020 when...

Using data from a randomized control trial in Uruguay, we evaluate the impact of an economic and financial education program targeted to senior high-school students. The program is based on an innovative playful approach workshop about monetary policy and financial supervision. We find that the...