THEEE are obvious differences between the students in high schools or academies, studying elementary economics, and the older students engaged in collegiate or university work, in both maturity and ...

Some economists consider their discipline a science, and thereby divorced from messy ethical details, the normative passions of right and wrong. They teach in a moral vacuum, perhaps even advocating ...

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

When 17-year-old Jerry Marnell thought about heading off to college, economics seemed like an enticing major to study. Between self-starting his own production company and serving as president of a ...

Kathryn Bender, assistant professor of economics in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, was teaching her Introduction to Microeconomics class in early October ...

DEXTER, MI – Rob Dubay filled in what roles he could before becoming a full-time teacher when he started working with Dexter Community Schools. Now, as a high school economics teacher and football ...

Managing personal finances is an important life skill that underpins the national effort to require personal finance education in every state. But that effort shouldn’t edge out teaching economics. In ...

As we go through periods of growth or recession, with rising and falling rates of inflation and unemployment, having an underpinning in economics helps us all to understand what’s happening in the ...

Economics is everywhere these days -- and our policies and understanding around them are evolving. What students learn about economics is critical to their future success and our nation’s prosperity.

Even in retirement, Steven Reff likes to bring a cheerful excitement to the world of economics, always hoping to provide students with fun, useful and free economics resources. It’s that pursuit that ...

Nestled comfortably between a bike, unopened moving boxes and a dog bed, James Campbell, UC Berkeley lecturer of economics and pedagogy, sits in his newly assigned office on the sixth floor of Evans ...