Teaching Economics and Research in Economic Education

I will be attending the conference below:

June 1-3, 2011
Palo Alto, CA
The AEA Committee on Economic Education, in cooperation with the Journal of Economic Education, will host a national conference on Teaching Economics (at the undergraduate and graduate levels) and Research in Economic Education (all levels, including precollege) from June 1-3, 2011.

The venue for the conference will be the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Plenary sessions at the conference will include:

•Vernon Smith, "Bringing Experiments and the Scottish Enlightenment into the Classroom"

•B. Douglas Bernheim, "What Have We Learned About the Effects of Economic and Financial Education on Household Financial Decisions?"

•John Taylor, “Lessons from the Financial Crisis for Teaching Economics”
The conference will begin at 1:00 p.m. on June 1 and end at 11:00 am on June 3.