A Bluestocking Guide: Economics

We used this for homeschool curriculum this year. My main issue with it is the consistency of the chapter questions. For the first half of the book, there are quite a few questions to ensure comprehension of each chapter, plus several optional assignments. For the second half of the book, it's like they gave up (maybe they ran into a deadline or something). At that point, I had to go through each chapter and create my own questions to ensure comprehension, which isn't terrible, but I'd rather the questions come from the experts.

Am using this in homeschooling environment with high schooler for economics. The depth and breadth of the questions vary, but you can choose what you desire to use. Supplemental articles and project ideas are included which teacher/parent can choose from or ignore depending on the age of the student and level of class you want it to be.

As a person who has studied both both micro and macro economics I can say that these books are fantastic for explaining the basics of Economics to young people. I really feel like these should be required reading for anyone.

It refers to the Federal Reserve System as something that prints counterfeit money in chapter 2. The author is very clear he is a biases source and writes this book from his bias.

Just what my son needed for his homeschool economics class. He has truly enjoyed this book along with 'What Ever Happened To Penny Candy?' I would highly recommend and students are able to move through the book and workbook without the aid of a parent if you so choose. Both my high school-aged sons have taken this one semester course.

Who is very conservative. We are moderates and can handle it, but if you have a liberal POV on economics you may not like this series. This particular workbook has loads of extra reading on different topics, and those are quite useful, but most of them are written at a very high reading level. Only a student who is already interested in econ and reading at a freshman college level would be able to really absorb those. The workbook part of this is not that fabulous. No interesting projects or activities, at least not to my 15 year old! But the extra readings are the bulk of the workbook and very good if your kid is a great reader and interested.

This book is Okay, we are currently using it along side "What Ever Happened to Penny Candy". I find it opens you up to discussions with your student more than any other text we have ever read. We are covering this in eighth grade, possibly should have waited until ninth or tenth grade. We do love the stories, the questions and extra assignments.

Very interesting & useful