Expansion of Economic Education in the Soviet Union

Abstract

Because of our intense preoccupation with economic education in the United States and, to a lesser extent, with budding economic education movements in a few other democratic countries, we have paid little attention to the teaching of economics elsewhere. John W. Baer's paper on economic education in the Soviet Union, therefore, is a welcome surprise. In this well-documented article, Professor Baer provides some interesting statistics on the number of economists being training in the U.S.S.R. as compared with the number in the United States, and outlines the Soviet Union's current drive to improve economic literacy on the part of adult workers.