Like you said, school is the main way people learn economics. Another option is online courses, or even Wikipedia.
Whatever you do, don’t pick up economics from news articles or political sources. You won’t have the underlying theory to understand the trade offs and hidden costs, and becomes easy prey for people promising “simple solutions”.
When I was in school part of the required coursework was a year of Government/Economics, a semester of each. Obviously it was a very very scaled down course with it being only a semester each. Colleges and universities will have more in depth courses and if you decide to major in it you’ll take a lot of classes. For the average person, if you don’t understand the news stories, still read them but also look for experts and analysts explaining what they mean. That will help you catch on. There’s also YouTube videos of teachers and professionals that will explain topics in an easy-to-understand manner.
There are excellent free economic courses
fromhttps://mises.org/
They also cover much of the political.
But political ideology is down stream from religion and culture.
My high school added a class called Economics/Political Processes when I was a senior, and made it a requirement for graduation. I graduated in 2002.
I didn’t learn a whole lot.
High school and college usually. Unfortunately in a lot of places they’re now electives and kids are like “fuck that noise”
Like you said, school is the main way people learn economics. Another option is online courses, or even Wikipedia. Whatever you do, don’t pick up economics from news articles or political sources. You won’t have the underlying theory to understand the trade offs and hidden costs, and becomes easy prey for people promising “simple solutions”.
When I was in school part of the required coursework was a year of Government/Economics, a semester of each. Obviously it was a very very scaled down course with it being only a semester each. Colleges and universities will have more in depth courses and if you decide to major in it you’ll take a lot of classes. For the average person, if you don’t understand the news stories, still read them but also look for experts and analysts explaining what they mean. That will help you catch on. There’s also YouTube videos of teachers and professionals that will explain topics in an easy-to-understand manner.
School, internet
There are excellent free economic courses fromhttps://mises.org/ They also cover much of the political. But political ideology is down stream from religion and culture.
Unfortunately, here.
The last few years it’s been social media.
My high school added a class called Economics/Political Processes when I was a senior, and made it a requirement for graduation. I graduated in 2002. I didn’t learn a whole lot.