New Developments in Economic Education

Edited by Franklin Mixon and Richard Cebula

Abstract: This innovative book offers targeted strategies for effectively and efficiently teaching economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It provides professors and other teachers of economics various techniques to engage and retain the interest of students, and challenges them to apply both knowledge and methodological tools to a range of economic problems.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 9781782549710
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down: why good content is never enough , pp 1-20: Wayne Geerling and G. Dirk Mateer
Ch 2 A classroom federal funds market experiment , pp 21-40: Denise Hazlett
Ch 3 An improved in-class bargaining demonstration , pp 41-45: Calvin Blackwell
Ch 4 Bo knows property rights and futures markets: economics in Trading Places , pp 46-52: Michael R. Hammock and Art Carden
Ch 5 Crony capitalism in The Gilded Age by Twain and Warner and its relevance for today , pp 53-64: Michelle A. Vachris
Ch 6 Including short stories in economics courses , pp 65-75: Philip J. Ruder
Ch 7 Some brief syllabus advice for the young economist , pp 76-87: Emily Chamlee-Wright and Joshua Hall
Ch 8 Using literature to teach the economics of the Soviet-type and centrally planned economies , pp 88-96: Zenon X. Zygmont
Ch 9 Not so Bleak House: business and entrepreneurship in Dickens , pp 97-111: Sarah E. Skwire
Ch 10 Beyond the can opener: a top ten list of economics humor , pp 112-125: Yoram Bauman
Ch 11 Can't see the tacking for the trees? Try a Coasian solution , pp 126-132: Scott A. Beaulier, Franklin Mixon and Richard Cebula
Ch 12 Teaching the economics of income tax evasion , pp 133-139: Richard Cebula and Maggie Foley
Ch 13 The black market and the silver screen: economics in The Third Man , pp 140-147: Michael R. Hammock and Art Carden
Ch 14 Assessing the economic and financial knowledge of adults , pp 148-162: Kenneth C. Rebeck and William B. Walstad
Ch 15 Success in the economics major: is it path dependent? , pp 163-178: Carlos Asarta, Roger B. Butters and Andrew Perumal
Ch 16 Economic literacy and policy perceptions during the financial crisis , pp 179-198: Paul Grimes, Kevin E. Rogers and William D. Bosshardt
Ch 17 The effects of legalized cheating in the economics classroom , pp 199-208: Joel M. Potter and John L. Scott
Ch 18 Instructor attractiveness and institutional choice in economics: a decomposition approach , pp 209-217: Trellis G. Green, Franklin Mixon and Len J. Trevi-o
Ch 19 Do clickers enhance student performance in economics? , pp 218-223: Joel M. Potter and John L. Scott

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