States are increasingly mandating financial literacy education as a high school graduation requirement. However, most states already include economics education as part of their curriculum, and it is unclear whether financial literacy education and economics education differ. We examine the...

The authors describe an interdisciplinary approach to teaching economics that uses a powerful contemporary medium, the motion picture, to establish the context for teaching elementary economics concepts. The plots and subplots in many films can be used to illustrate problems and issues that are...