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 ...

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 point of this single web page is to be a one-stop shop. The links below point to the various ways that I use or have used Excel to teach Economics, including my summer Excel teaching workshop. My ...

Since fall 2016, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has welcomed 51 new colleagues to the ladder faculty. The incoming cohort comprises 17 new hires each for the divisions of the humanities, the social ...

This post is by S. Abu Rizvi, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. An economist and former Honors College dean at the University of Vermont, he will be joining Lafayette ...

Having taught economics at a number of colleges for a number of years, I especially welcomed a feature article in the June 22 issue of “The Chronicle of Higher Education,” on how economics courses ...

Maeve Cohen is the director of Rethinking Economics in Manchester, UK, a non-profit group devoted to improving economics education. Ten years ago, the behemoth investment bank Lehman Brothers ...

Economics lecturers need to teach their students about more than just numbers. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo Economics is a discipline that ought, at its best, to explain the world and its complexities.

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 ...

ECONOMISTS can be a haughty bunch. But a decade of trauma has had a chastening effect. They are rethinking old ideas, asking new questions and occasionally welcoming heretics back into the fold.