It’s never an easy job to tell the public that they are ignorant. But sometimes they are. Happily, ignorance is curable – and sometimes things are a lot better than you imagine.
A recent article by economist William Goffe of SUNY Oswego University demonstrated widespread ignorance about economic conditions in the United States, even among students who had taken a previous course in economics. Not only were the students wrong on the facts, though, but they were wrong in some very interesting directions.
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