Title, volume, number, and pagination are given for each article categorized under (1) Foods and Nutrition, (2) Clothing and Textiles, (3) Child and Family, (4) Housing, (5) Management, (6) Educational Facilities, (7) Evaluation, (8) Providing for Individual Differences, (9) Program Enrichments. (10) Preemployment Education, (11) Values, and (12)…

The rational expectations hypothesis has had a profound impact on macroeconomic theory and policy during the past decade. The most significant contribution of the hypothesis is in formulating expectations in a genuinely forward-looking way, thereby making the current state of the economy depend on expectations of the future. (Author/RM)

This article is about the free enterprise curriculum required by Arizona state law. (PD)

The article uses the notion of economic education to clarify the relationships between economics and consumer education as subject matter areas, and develops certain implications that follow. (Author)

Of twenty categories in consumer education taught in high schools by departments, home economics led the field only in clothing and household soft goods and in foods. (AG)

Few of the popular British economics textbooks make more than passing mention of finance houses. The role of finance houses in the British economy is reviewed. (Author/RM)

The economic system is an important factor affecting consumer decisions. Students need opportunities to study the economic system so that they can understand how their decisions influence the system and are influenced by it. (JOW)

To respond to today's economic situation, old remedies must be discarded. Students must question causes and effects of problems before suggesting appropriate solutions. (JOW)

The comments in this article are offered in the spirit of being helpful, although offered with all due humility, because the author is not an economist but only plays one on TV, which another contributor to this session, Klaus Zimmerman (2004, 403), diplomatically points out is "'inadequate for conveying truly profound messages." All of the…

History matters. It matters not only because people can learn from the past, but because the present and the future are connected to the past by the continuity of a society's institutions. Today and tomorrow's choices are shaped by the past. And the past can be made intelligible only as a story of institutional evolution. This story focuses on the…

Principle of duality and numerical calculation of income and substitution effects under Hicksian Compensation are often left out of intermediate microeconomics courses because they require a rigorous calculus based analysis. But these topics are critically important for understanding consumer behavior. In this paper we use excel solver--a…

The authors present a constructivist approach for teaching game theory, on the basis, in part, of Axelrod's research approach. Using the Axelrod tournament multi-user system (ATMUS) software, students create strategies for a repeated prisoner's dilemma (RPD). Later, these strategies are matched with those of their classmates' in a classroom…

The author introduces a simulation of counter-cyclical interventions that highlights important issues surrounding the practice of government intervention. The simulation provides experiential insight as to why economists have long debated the degree of persistence exhibited by disequilibrating shocks and connects this debate to discussions about…

Students often exhibit overconfident grade expectations and tend to overestimate the actual course grade at the completion of a course. Current theories of student motivation suggest such overconfidence may lead students to study less than if they had accurate grade perceptions. The authors report the findings of a survey of students enrolled in…