An increasing number of academic institutions provide short-term international study opportunities for their business students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Some institutions even provide such experiences for faculty, to enhance their international background and to facilitate...

Economics teaching relies overwhelmingly on faculty lecturing, which is generally seen as a significant pedagogical problem. But this paper argues that didactic instruction is actually well-suited to the neoclassical economics that is usually taught. This approach – especially its textbook...

Pedagogical pluralism is difficult to implement in practice. This paper contrasts two approaches to the modelling of money in macroeconomics: the stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model of Godley and Lavoie and the mainstream neoclassical dynamic general equilibrium model of Barro. Students...

What do our students need to unlearn in order to consider contending perspectives, and how do we accomplish this? It is not hard to have our students supplant one orthodoxy with another, to accept a theory that we, as their professors, might find more appealing than the neoclassical one, but how...

Central bankers fear deflation but this is incomprehensible within the standard AS/AD framework based on a real wealth effect. This framework is amended by introducing debt effects that reduce aggregate demand when prices fall, as emphasised long ago by Keynes, Kalecki and Fisher, thus showing...

Pedagogies infused by methodological pluralism are better able to encourage students to use stories to make connections between classroom material and the pulse of their daily lives. Teaching during times of economic and financial crises also provides an opening for theoretical pluralism. The...

This paper analyses how the incorporation of a music project influences final examination scores, student evaluation results, and overall attendance rates in a pre-principles economics course. The course - personal money management and consumer economics - caters to non-economics majors,...

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...

This paper presents ideas for a course in the undergraduate economics curriculum designed to de-mystify mathematics and empower students to respond creatively and ethically when they encounter situations that involve mathematics. We build on the strengths of courses that already exist in many...