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 of economics text which embodies the state of economic knowledge and in addition, serves as the foundation for more...

This paper describes an assignment where students evaluate a current industry using Adam Smith's arguments against monopoly power. Using Smith's arguments, students write a paper describing whether they believe a current industry, such as the US cellular phone carrier industry, suffers from the...

Personal finance and economics are two distinct subjects, with some common characteristics, that require instruction by highly qualified teachers. Both are critical to well-being of households, businesses, and the macro economy. The author discusses the evolving curricular requirements for...

The economic crisis has highlighted the significance of ongoing work by pluralist economists to define and implement a more pluralistic economics education. This paper explores the close connection between pluralism and student engagement, and argues this connection is a particularly compelling...

We have chosen to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to debt, leading to a transdisciplinary analysis of sovereign debt. Disciplinary fields as varied as logic, accounting, finance, psychology, geopolitics, economics, statistics, ethics, rhetoric and political discourse analysis are mobilised...

McCloskey (1998) and Ziliak (2009) have argued for bridging the intellectual and pedagogical divide between 'poets and positivists'. And Ziliak (2002, 2009, 2011) introduced a new bridge, 'haiku economics'. An introductory economics class at a large US university required students to use a work...

A university education should enable and improve students' cognitive abilities. An effective curriculum can help achieve this objective. Teaching that economics is more than just neoclassicism, for example, could aid the transition to higher stages of cognition. That said, even erstwhile...