Economic views held by the general public tend to differ significantly from those of economic experts. To what extent would these differences fade away if people were exposed to economic instruction? In this paper we identify first-year college students' initial preconceptions about economic...

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...

In der Folge von Milton Friedman, John Maynard Keynes und ihren Erben hat sich die Ökonomie unmerklich zur Ersatzreligion moderner Gesellschaften aufgeschwungen. Ihre Maximen und Schlüsselideen IBM von Nudging bis zum Trittbrettfahren IBM wirken sich heute direkt auf unsere...