A decade ago, a national conference of macroeconomic educators called for fundamental reform in the teaching of intermediate macroeconomics, urging instructors to employ a single analytic framework rather than 'responding to the fragmentation of macroeconomics by teaching a separate model for...

This essay introduces the key themes, and papers, in an edited volume entitled, Commerce and Community: Ecologies of Social Cooperation. Since the end of the Cold War, the human face of economics has gained visibility and generated new conversations among economists and other social theorists....

In this paper prepared for the Miller Upton Forum on the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, Garnett examines the commons-like properties of knowledge in the context of the college classroom. Garnett argues that, despite the hard work and good faith of college and university professors, the...