https://doi.org/10.2307/1183494 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1183494 Copy URL The author examined 12 recent editions of principles of economics textbooks to ...

Twenty-one, one-semester introductory economics texts are reviewed in terms of goals and objectives, organization, mathematical and graphical analysis, readability, historical development, bias, ...

In the nineteen-forties, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was considering adopting a new economics textbook, the school’s president received warnings about the book’s author: “It is ...

I’ve been teaching economics for 25 years, and yet I’ve routinely missed a perfect opportunity to explain how markets fail to deliver efficient solutions. It isn’t just me. During our first day of ...

Economics remains dominated by men, both in terms of faculty members and students. New research suggests that while economics textbooks aren’t necessarily to blame, they’re not helping close the field ...

The Intermountain Power Agency coal-fired power plant outside Delta, Utah, on June 20. (George Frey/Bloomberg) Robert J. Samuelson’s June 24 op-ed, “It’s time we tear up our economics textbooks,” ...

With Donald Trump in the White House and Congress bitterly divided, setting economic policy has been a haphazard, piecemeal business. In December, congressional Republicans rammed through an overhaul ...

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