Theory & Practice
Economic Literacy/Pedagogy Resources & Links
Twenty Questions: Social Justice Quiz (Answers at end of Quiz) by Bill Quigley
Download a copy of 20 Questions here:
http://www.sabbatheconomics.org/downloads/889520 Questions.doc
Note: While we are building this page, here are three basic sources for popular education in economics:
1. Economic Policy Institute. Publications include research on employment and wages, workplace and training, labor and industrial relations, budget policy, deficits and taxes, deregulation and privatization, monetary and macroeconomic policy, public investment, trade and globalization, manufacturing and industrial policy, sustainable economics, education, etc. www.epinet.org 800-EPI-4844.
2. United for a Fair Economy. UFE brings people together to close the growing economic divide through grassroots economics education, media work, mobilization and movement building, research, arts and creative action. UFE publishes a wide variety of materials, such as:
· Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality/Insecurity
· Teaching Economics as if People Mattered, The Activist’s Cookbook
· Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wealth Gap
· Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy, Field Guide to the Global Economy
· Robin Hood was Right: A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change
· Choosing the High Road: Businesses That Pay a Living Wage and Prosper
· Creative Action Script Series: Guides for performing UFE’s Street Theatre Skits
· Also: Globalization for Beginners Workshop Kit, The Growing Divide Workshop Kit, Videos, Posters, Workshop Training Manuals; and a quarterly newsletter “Too Much” for those who join UFE at $25/year.
UFE conducts workshops nationwide to train grassroots persons to conduct popular economics education workshops. www.ufenet.org or call 877–564–6833.
3. Center for Popular Economics. CPE is a non-profit organization that teaches economic literacy to activists for progressive social change. CPE creates and communicates economic theories that challenge systems of oppression based on class, race, gender and nation. Their popular Summer Institute provides excellent training. Call (413) 545-0743 or write:
PO Box 785
Amherst, MA 01004
www.populareconomics.org/
