Recent pedagogical research in economics has increasingly emphasised the use of experiments and media to transform traditional instruction methods. This innovative approach combines interactive ...

The Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 39, No. 3 (SUMMER 2008), pp. 273-286 (14 pages) In 1995, 2000, and 2005, the authors surveyed U.S. academic economists to investigate how economics is taught in ...

Surveys in 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010 investigated teaching and assessment methods in different undergraduate courses. In this article, the authors offer basic results from the 2010 survey. "Chalk and ...

Joel Mokyr was lauded by the Nobel committee Monday for demonstrating how innovations become a “self-generating process.” ...

Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems In the early 2010s, a widespread feeling that economics teaching was failing students ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The writer teaches at Soas, University of London. His latest book is ‘Edible Economics’ In the aftermath of the ...

ECONOMISTS ARE keen fans of dynamism, but there are too few signs of it in economics teaching. A survey of American lecturers last year found that their methods, which rely on lectures and assigned ...

Rigby High School teacher Laron Johnson has been named the 2026 Idaho Teacher of the Year, honoring nearly three decades of ...

Communitarian scholar Amitai Etzioni reviews in the Sociological Forum decades of studies that find that thinking like an economist more or less equals moral corruption and debasement. Etzioni's ...

A fundamental economic principle is that voluntary trade creates wealth, and the more people trade, the greater their ...

When economics faculty members at James Madison University received their annual evaluations this summer, some of them were taken aback. Had their teaching gotten much worse all of a sudden? Six ...