This survey summarizes the main research findings about teaching economics to
undergraduates. After briefly reviewing the history of research on undergraduate economic …

Gegenwärtig steht die ökonomische Standardlehre an Hochschulen vermehrt in der Kritik.
Die Vorwürfe reichen dabei von Einseitigkeit über Weltferne bis hin zur Indoktrination. Die …

The three largest public universities in British Columbia, Canada have signed the Talloires
Declaration, committing themselves to promoting sustainability and creating expectations …

This paper offers an analysis of selected first-year teaching–learning environments in
economics. Evidence is derived from 41 semi-structured interviews conducted as part of the …

The author examined 12 recent editions of principles of economics textbooks to determine
the quantity of race-and gender-related material. Comparing the results to earlier studies …

How have authors of widely used US introductory economics textbooks responded to the
traumatizing financial crisis? The answer interests textbook authors as well as the users. An …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how mainstream economics educates students
pertaining to energy, the environment and green economics. The focus is on the principles …

Economics as a science not only investigates what is (as a positive science) and what
should be (as a normative science), but influences, through its fundamental ideas, what facts …

Faculty members teaching principles of economics today are faced with a wide array of
textbooks and supplementary materials from which to choose. While the publishing market …

The topic of the Federal Reserve's (the Fed's) implementation of monetary policy has a
significant presence in economics textbooks. Unfortunately, as the Fed purposefully shifted …