Iwent to high school in the late 1980s. It was the Reagan era, a prosperous and hopeful time in much of the country. You’d have thought that living in a flourishing and peaceful land would have fostered in adults an interest in teaching children the fundamentals of the market economy.
In fact, it was the opposite. Adults weren’t any more interested in talking about economics than I was in hearing about it. The only economics on offer came delivered in the oddly wrapped curricular package labeled “social studies” — a pre-woke bouillabaisse of history, criticism, theory, and popular nonsense about the shortcomings of market capitalism.
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