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Economic education – Part 11: Patience is a virtue

Imagine you could choose how to have your lottery winnings paid out – would you like to...

Economic education – Part 10: Measurement problems

Watch out! If you answer the following question incorrectly, you may be deemed financially...

Economic education – Part 9: Harvard and co.

Predominantly male, white, foreign and from an affluent family with an academic background –...

Economic education – Part 8: Of teachers, economists and...

Does economic education influence the way people think and affect their political attitudes?...

Economic education – Part 7: All-clear given – for now

Does economic education make you more egoistic? No education programme, as far as I am aware,...

What is iconomix?

With iconomix, the Swiss National Bank (SNB)www.snb.ch/... aims to help improve the basic economic literacy of the population at large.

Although this web-based, modular teaching programme is intended for teachers of upper secondary schools, it is open to anyone interested in finding out more about the subject. It presents the basic principleshttp://www.iconomix.chen/service/educational-concept/basic-economic-principles/ and concepts of economics in a fun way.

  
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