[GJM] Economic Literacy - Associative Economics Bulletin - July 2008 - 3

[robert searle]

--- On Wed, 9/7/08, Arthur Edwards <ame at cfae.biz> wrote:

> From: Arthur Edwards <ame at cfae.biz>
> Subject: Economic Literacy - Associative Economics Bulletin - July 2008 - 3
> To: "Arthur  Edwards" <mail at arthuredwards.net>
> Date: Wednesday, 9 July, 2008, 2:19 PM
> Associative Economic Literacy - Associative Economics
> Bulletin - July  
> 2008
> 
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> 1.    Events at The London School of Economics
> 2.    Associative Economic Literacy - Associative Economics
> Monthly  
> July 2008
> 3.    Research Update
> 
> 1)   EVENTS AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
> 
> We plan to continue our series of events at the London
> School of  
> Economics this autumn. Each session will comprise two
> parts, the first  
> being an introductory course in associative economics
> leading to a  
> Diploma, the second an ongoing research group looking at
> current  
> events and issues from an associative perspective.
> 
> 2)  ASSOCIATIVE ECONOMIC LITERACY  - ASSOCIATIVE ECONOMICS
> MONTHLY   
> July 2008
> 
> We have touched on financial literacy before (AEM December
> 2005 and  
> AEM July 2006), but this time our spirit is one of saying
> “let's get  
> on with it!”
> In Air Beneath Their Wings we report on an on-going global
> project to  
> research ways in which literacy in economics, business and
> finance can  
> be introduced into a youth curriculum.
> In Sign of the Times, Simon Jenkins shows how the problem
> of state  
> intervention in education is now well enough known and ripe
> for fresh  
> treatment.
> The feature by Rudolf Steiner, Championing the Individual,
> provides  
> wide sociological underpinning of the importance of society
> today  
> celebrating rather than conditioning the individual human
> being. It is  
> also an economic commentary in that the costs to society
> can only  
> become greater and without any return, if the initiative of
> young  
> people, linked to their enthusiasm for their own destiny,
> is thwarted  
> or ignored. It does not take an economist to work out that
> young  
> people who are able to serve society out of the uniqueness
> of their  
> destinies cost far less than those who are not able to do
> so, because  
> discouraged from doing so. The first flourish, bringing
> wealth to  
> society; the second, lost in jail, merely incur costs.
> This month's AE Hero provides a case in point. In that
> going Beyond  
> the Bottom Line is a key consideration for the teaching of
> economics  
> in high school.
> Accountant's Corner treats of corporate social
> responsibility and the  
> importance of it being inherent to business conduct rather
> than a  
> requirement from outside.
> 
> 3)	RESEARCH UPDATE
> 
> Please contact Arthur Edwards if you would like a research
> update on  
> his doctoral study of Rudolf Steiner's idea of 3 kinds
> of money or you  
> would be interested to receive a pilot-study on the
> teaching of  
> economics through financial literacy undertaken within
> various upper- 
> school Waldorf contexts, which is part of the Centre for
> Associative  
> Economics education for initiative project (see above).


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