Board members Quote by Zephyr Teachout

If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one…

— Charles Koch

With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the same time,…

— Michael Yates

The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize

— Franklin D Roosevelt

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic,…

— Bernard Baruch

I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material…

— Greg Mankiw

Education is the best economic policy there is.

— Tony Blair

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.

— Henry Calvert Simons

Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America's growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes…

— Chaka Fattah

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing…

— Mark Skousen

“Without improvement in education, how can the economics of the world improve?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The level of economic literacy in the U.S. had been underdeveloped for a long time ... As a teacher, the best situation is when…

— Richard D. Wolff