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The economy is a key issue in every national election, and the US election of 2020 is no exception. Candidates campaign on economic miracles, but without context it can be difficult to distinguish the ideas that lead to a strong economy from those destined to fail. This book provides a concise guide to deciphering candidate proposals with straightforward, non-partisan descriptions of how the American economy functions, and why some ideas might make better sense than others. Economics, in its most elegant form, is the study of cause and effect. By placing economic theories within their ideological context and describing how they have been applied throughout American history, this book lays the groundwork for an informed vote in future elections in support of the reader's own economic interests.

Despite growing attention to public opinion about economic inequality, there has been little research on how this topic should be addressed in a key site of civic development—elementary and secondary schools. This commentary builds on a recent ASAP article by White, Mistry, and Chow to explore what knowledge and understandings K‐12 students should acquire about the economy, and what this means for what teachers need to know. Looking to John Dewey's Depression‐era writing as a guide, I introduce the concept of economic literacy and describe how teachers and students can develop such literacy.

Using a collection of conference papers published in 1978 as a point of departure, the article reviews developments in family history research in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland during the past two-and-a-half decades. Included are those works which either treat the family or household as the object of study or use the family or household to study social, economic, and demographic change. Methodological developments as well as such topics as marriage and the formation of families, illegitimacy, social legislation, family relationships, family planning, and household size and structure are presented with an emphasis on cross-country comparisons.