Economics focuses on the behavior and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics is a field which analyzes what’s viewed as basic elements in the economy, including individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions. Individual agents may include, for example, households, firms, buyers, and sellers. Macroeconomics analyzes the economy as a system where production, consumption, saving, and investment interact, and factors affecting it: employment of the resources of labor, capital, and land, currency inflation, economic growth, and public policies that have impact on these elements. 

Departing from scientific definitions, it should be understood that economics has been present in our daily lives for thousands of years, whether we like it or not. The first time this word appears in u Xenophon as the title of one of his works. The ancients understood this word as the principles of running a household. Another school says that the word economics is a combination of the words oikos – home, household and nomeus – a man who manages, assigns an a verb oikonomeo which means running the house. From our point of view, understanding its basic mechanisms is the basic knowledge that every human being should possess. Economics is a social science that describes the relationship between buyer and seller and analysis of the market.

We notice that school education lacks the basic elements of economics and entrepreneurship. During the three years of work (2019-2022) on the Erasmus + project „Active, creative, entrepreneurial”, we tried to find methods that allow the introduction of economic issues into the curriculums of all school subjects, from early childhood education, through language learning, history, to mathematics and geography. We have collected sample lesson scenarios in this publication and made them available for use under an open license. We hope that the results of our work will inspire other teachers. 

The team of teachers of the Erasmus + project

„Active, creative, enterprising”