This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, July 4th, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

What enduring economics lessons can we teach our kids? And what lessons endure? What Enduring Economics Lessons Can We Teach Our Kids?

And what lessons endure?

Connor Boyac is author of the Tunnel Twins book series.

We talked about what it takes to make the essential lessons of the economic way of

thinking.

Stick with kids.

You are the author of the fabulously successful children's book series, The Tuttle Twins,

and you have since sort of branched out into making those an anchor point for doing economic

education for K through 8.

What do kids intuitively get about economics that might surprise us?

You know I was chuckling when Matt Kibby published a recent book of his called Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff. and non-aggression principle. And yet if you think about being a parent, those are the very lessons

that we're all teaching to young kids, right? Like leave people alone. Stay within your own space. Don't take

from other kids. And so I think that really shows that a lot of these lessons that we talk about, the values that we espouse as adults that we're trying to popularize, spread the message about really percolate down to young children. We can simplify these and these are the simple

social values, economic values that kids can understand and really should understand.

The unfortunate thing of course is that they're not really being introduced these ideas and they're not really being made aware of them.

And so the whole idea behind what we're doing is equipping parents with the ability to have these conversations with their young kids that they otherwise might not

know how to frame those ideas and how to approach their kids about them.

Okay, so the books that you've produced so far are sort of takes on classic works of economics and

libertarian thought. So where do you start? When you're talking with kids, where do you start?

So what we're doing right now is really fun where obviously we're selling books.

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