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Tuttle Twins, Free Market Rules, and Teaching Families Economics

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Cato Institute

Immigration, News, News Commentary, Peace, 424708, Markets, Government, Libertarian, Policy, Politics, Cato, Defense

4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

How can families engage with basic economic concepts in ways that give young people a solid footing in how markets work? Connor Boyack, author of the Tuttle Twins books, has a few ideas.

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0:00.0

This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, November 29th, 2019.

0:08.3

I'm Caleb Brown.

0:09.4

There are now 10 Tuttle Twins books out there teaching the economic way of thinking to young people,

0:14.7

now Connor Boyac, the author of those books has created free market rules, regularly delivered

0:20.0

lesson plans for families to engage with economic concepts of scarcity, trade, and many others.

0:26.4

We spoke last month in Colorado Springs.

0:28.6

So you've produced 10 of these Tuttle Twins books and I'll commend I can commend people to look at several of them I haven't seen all of them myself

0:37.8

but they are engaging

0:41.1

They tell a good story I think the law is probably the one that I connected to the best and really enjoyed and look forward to sharing those with my kids, but you've gone a step further now to develop an econ

0:57.0

free market curriculum for not just kids but families.

1:02.0

Yeah, we did a survey recently and 60% of our

1:05.0

audience is homeschoolers 40% are public or private school and so most of our

1:10.0

audience they're on the hunt for curriculum they want want more content. And we do about two books a year,

1:14.8

that's kind of our publishing rate. And so the biggest kind of feedback we get is we want more, we want more,

1:19.5

what should we do next? And so there was this demand for more consistent content

1:24.2

to be able to accommodate the families who

1:27.0

want to invest the time to spend together

1:30.4

learning this type of stuff.

1:31.5

And so free market rules is what we're calling

1:33.8

this free market dot total twins dot com that's where we are now providing weekly

1:38.8

curriculum so that the entire family can learn free markets together in the home.

1:44.0

So what does that look like? What are some of the basic lessons that you cover?

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