The purpose of the study was to expose the economic norm on which the teaching rests to see if the governing documents and teaching materials give students the nuanced and multifaceted picture of economics that social studies and the Swedish school require. Based on the international research situation's indication of the neoclassical and market liberal norm as governing, the study started to take shape in dialogue with these results. With the help of Norman Fairclough's (2015) critical discourse analysis, curricula, and teaching materials for social studies were analyzed and interpreted. The result indicates that a neoclassical and market-liberal discourse is enormously prominent in social studies. The consequences are, among other things, that students' ability to achieve the overall goal and purpose of social studies is significantly hindered. In addition, the results show that the students were raised ideologically in line with a market-liberal discourse without the opportunity to take their ethical positions on the matter.