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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can children’s literature be used to teach economics to elementary school students? Some think so. The Council for Economic Education calls it “sneak-onomics.” I ran across the term while reading the ...

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

Cynics fret that “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session,” but economics teachers love it. During any session there are myriad timely basic econ examples that ...

The most pleasant surprise in my first year teaching economics and government full-time was being asked to take-on a financial literacy course as well. My friends and family tease me about keeping the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John T. Harvey the Hal Wright Professor of Economics at TCU. Back on March 1, my university called home all of its study abroad ...

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 ...

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 ...