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

This week: Updates on Kshama Sawant’s reelection victory in the Seattle City Council race; the obesity problem’s costs and causes in the U.S.; critiquing libertarian arguments in favor of capitalism; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Good teaching is vital to the mission of a good university. Knowledge produced by countless researchers would be of little use if it were not communicated effectively to each new generation of ...

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 ...

Sharecropping, the system in which the landlord allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop, has been a longstanding bone of contention. Four decades ago, Stiglits’ (1986) ...

Every year, the Department of Economics recognizes some of its most outstanding instructors and teaching assistants for the hard work they put forward for their students. This year's Lawrence Boland ...

Combine two historically interlinked disciplines and develop a breadth of skills across both economics and philosophy, on this joint honours degree. Our economics teaching is technically rigorous. You ...

Combine two historically interlinked disciplines and develop a breadth of skills across both economics and philosophy. This joint honours degree also includes an additional year studying at an ...