The ''Journal of Economic Education'' (''JEE'') offers original
peer-review
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ed articles on teaching economics. The inaugural issue appeared in the fall of 1969. At the time, G.L. Bach (
Stanford University
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) wrote in the ''American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings'' (1971) that the ''JEE'' was to be the forum for scholarly work in economic education, primarily at the undergraduate level in colleges and universities, but including junior colleges and, to some extent, the high schools.
In the early days, the Council for Economic Education (then call the Joint Council and later the National Council) oversaw publication of the ''JEE'', and members of the
American Economic Association
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Committee on Economic Education served as the editorial board, with Henry Villard (City University of New York) serving as editor. The
Council for Economic Education assigned the ''JEE'' copyright and publishing responsibility to the nonprofit Heldref Publications in 1981. The Council, however, retained responsibility for appointing the editor and providing financial support to the editorial office.
In 1983, Donald Paden (
University of Illinois
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) became editor when the ''JEE'' expanded to a quarterly publication. Kalman Goldberg (
Bradley University) became editor in 1986. The editorial offices moved to
Indiana University
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in 1989, when William Becker became editor. Late in 2009, William Walstad (
University of Nebraska at Lincoln) became editor and Heldref sold the ''JEE'' to the for-profit
Taylor & Francis Group. In 2018,
Sam Allgood and KimMarie McGoldrick became co-editors of the journal.
References
External links
*{{Official website, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vece20/current
Education journals
Economics journals
Academic journals established in 1969
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