The Journal of Economic Education is a cooperative effort of the National Council on Economic Education (previously called the Joint Council on Economic Education), the American Economic Association's Committee on Economic Education, and Heldref Publications, a division of the nonprofit Helen Dwight Reid Education Foundation. The American Economic Association Committee on Economic Education is a standing committee of the AEA, for which an annual report is provided in the AER Papers and Proceedings. In the May 1971 AER Papers and Proceedings, Chairman of the AEA Committee on Economic Education, G. L. Bach, reported that the JEE was founded by the NCEE in cooperation with the AEA Committee "to provide a channel of communication for research work and related publishable material with reference to economic education, primarily at the undergraduate level in colleges and universities, but including junior colleges and, to some extent, the high schools."(p. 505). John Siegfried, then Chairman of the AEA Committee on Economic Education, again featured the JEE in his AER Papers and Proceeding's account of the Committee's long-term involvement with the National Council on Economic Education in overseeing and sponsoring the JEE. C. Elton Hinshaw and John Siegfried have also provided a brief history of the AEA's involvement in economic education. For more information on the AEA Committee on Economic Education contact the current Chair:
William B. Walstad
Department of Economics
College of Business Administration
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68558-0402
Internet: wwalstad1@unl.edu