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104 How is Inflation Taught in the U.S.? Examining Financial Education Approaches
Key Words
financial literacy, financial education, inflation, disinflation
Short Description
Understanding and managing price and wage inflation is an important financial skill and has been identified as one of the “big three” economic concepts that individuals should understand to support sound financial decision-making (Lusardi & Mitchell, 2011). Since the 1980s, inflation in the U.S. has been mostly on the decline – what is referred to as disinflation – until recent months (McFee, 2021. Economists, Central Bankers, and financial professionals have divergent expectations on inflation for the near future, but many see beyond transitory inflation to more prolonged structural inflation (Scholtes, 2021). This recent and upcoming changes in inflation begs the research questions, “What is the state of knowledge about inflation in the U.S., how it is taught, and are schools and institutions educating its citizenry adequately to prepare for and respond to a change in inflation regime?”