The economics lessons in kids' books
Update: 2023-01-06
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Description
All sorts of lessons (even about economics) can be learned from kids' books. On today's show, we visit an elementary school to try to teach third graders econ using some beloved childrens' classics. And, along the way, we learn a few things ourselves.
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I hope those kids took away the important unstated lesson of their experience: there's information that the powerful and those in the establishment don't want you to be able to access. There are ideas that are dangerous to the systems of power around you. Think those thoughts. Gain that information. Don't be compliant.