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...

Trotz vieler Initiativen zur Stärkung finanzieller Bildung an Schulen findet sich in den deutschen Lehrplänen hierzu kein eigenes Fach. Im Folgenden skizziere ich zunächst die Erwartungen an eine finanzielle Bildung und die faktische Situation an den Schulen, um dann ausführlicher die...

Viele Entscheidungen des täglichen Lebens erfordern ökonomische Kenntnisse. Es gibt somit gute Gründe, das Wissen über Wirtschafts- und Finanzthemen zu stärken. In Deutschland gibt es bislang für ökonomische Bildung keine federführende Institution. Vielmehr engagieren sich neben dem...

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...

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...

Trotz vieler Initiativen zur Stärkung finanzieller Bildung an Schulen findet sich in den deutschen Lehrplänen hierzu kein eigenes Fach. Im Folgenden skizziere ich zunächst die Erwartungen an eine finanzielle Bildung und die faktische Situation an den Schulen, um dann ausführlicher die...

Viele Entscheidungen des täglichen Lebens erfordern ökonomische Kenntnisse. Es gibt somit gute Gründe, das Wissen über Wirtschafts- und Finanzthemen zu stärken. In Deutschland gibt es bislang für ökonomische Bildung keine federführende Institution. Vielmehr engagieren sich neben dem...

We provide a list of economic concepts and issues covered in all of the children's books published by Theodor Geisel, writing under the pen names of Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg, or Rosetta Stone. We discuss his treatment of the concepts and issues that appear most often and that are treated in...

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...