{"title":"Coverage of Entrepreneurship in Principles of Economics Textbooks: An Update","authors":"C. Kent, F. W. Rushing","doi":"10.1080/00220489909595955","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An analysis of the coverage of entrepreneurship contained in principles of economics textbooks in the mid-1980s (Kent 1989) revealed that entrepreneurship was either neglected, improperly presented, or only partially covered. Our purpose is to update that study by analyzing the coverage of entrepreneurship over a decade later in 14 popular introductory texts. Not all of the same textbooks were used as in the earlier study because some are no longer in print. The texts we used are listed in the Appendix. For this study, the same functional definition of entrepreneurship' and the 23 concepts used in the previous study were employed as a means of determining the scope of inclusion of entrepreneurship in current textbooks. These 23 concepts can be grouped into six major categories (Table 1). From this content analysis, it appears that entrepreneurship still has not worked its way into economics principles texts. As a result, students may be left with an incomplete understanding of the economic process.","PeriodicalId":51564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Education","volume":"54 1","pages":"184-188"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"33","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Economic Education","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220489909595955","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
An analysis of the coverage of entrepreneurship contained in principles of economics textbooks in the mid-1980s (Kent 1989) revealed that entrepreneurship was either neglected, improperly presented, or only partially covered. Our purpose is to update that study by analyzing the coverage of entrepreneurship over a decade later in 14 popular introductory texts. Not all of the same textbooks were used as in the earlier study because some are no longer in print. The texts we used are listed in the Appendix. For this study, the same functional definition of entrepreneurship' and the 23 concepts used in the previous study were employed as a means of determining the scope of inclusion of entrepreneurship in current textbooks. These 23 concepts can be grouped into six major categories (Table 1). From this content analysis, it appears that entrepreneurship still has not worked its way into economics principles texts. As a result, students may be left with an incomplete understanding of the economic process.
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The Journal of Economic Education offers original articles on teaching economics. In its pages, leading scholars evaluate innovations in teaching techniques, materials, and programs. Instructors of introductory through graduate level economics will find the journal an indispensable resource for content and pedagogy in a variety of media. The Journal of Economic Education is published quarterly in cooperation with the National Council on Economic Education and the Advisory Committee on Economic Education of the American Economic Association.