Publication: Journal of Economic Education
Volume: Volume 20, No. 3
Issue: Summer 1989
Pages: pp. 314-320
Author(s): Margaret G. O'Donnell (University of Southwestern Louisiana)
Title: A Historical Note on the Use of Fiction to Teach Principles of Economics
Abstract: The use of the novel to teach economics is traced back from its contemporary form to the early nineteenth century. The degree of economic sophistication in the earliest books is particularly impressive.