''The Journal of Economic Education'' (''JEE'') offers original

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ed articles on teaching economics. The inaugural issue appeared in the fall of 1969. At the time, G.L. Bach (

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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 Committee on Economic Education served as the editorial board, with Henry Villard (City University of New York) serving as editor. The

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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 (

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) became editor when the ''JEE'' expanded to a quarterly publication. Kalman Goldberg (

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) became editor in 1986. The editorial offices moved to

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in 1989, when William Becker became editor. Late in 2009, William Walstad (

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) became editor and Heldref sold the ''JEE'' to the for-profit

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Economic Education, Journal of Education journals Economics journals Publications established in 1969 English-language journals