For the most part, I agree, but it is worth learning what a lot of the macro jargon means: i.e. GDP, trade deficit, etc. People are going to see it in the news and they may as well understand it.

Micro economics not macro should be taught in high school


Bell_curve

It would be pretty easy to put together a curriculum around the most approachable introductory books, like Economics in One Lesson.

Undisciplined

Economics is the study of how individuals act to satisfy virtually limitless wants in an ever-changing world of limited resources. However, when talk of wealth inequality abounds, one can be sure that economics is about to be mischaracterized as a means of weaponizing the state to distribute a given stock of wealth in a zero-sum and static world. This is redistributionism, or antieconomics.

Seriously.... I kinda wish all high schoolers had to take an economics class (and from a real economist, not someone with a sociology degree or whatever), so that they could understand this basic principle that economics isn't (just) about money and that wealth isn't a zero sum game and that it's really about the conditions that engender the healthy production and exchange of value.

econ

Tax the Rich? Not a Good Idea

> Economics is the study of how individuals act to satisfy virtually limitless wants in an ever-changing world of limited resources. However, when talk of wealth inequality abounds, one can be sure that economics is about to be mischaracterized as a means of weaponizing the state to distribute a given stock of wealth in a zero-sum and static world. This is redistributionism, or antieconomics.

Seriously.... I kinda wish all high schoolers had to take an economics class (and from a real economist, not someone with a sociology degree or whatever), so that they could understand this basic principle that economics isn't (just) about money and that wealth isn't a zero sum game and that it's really about the conditions that engender the healthy production and exchange of value.
