[eng] In the continuing debate over Keynes' s political philosophy, Skidelsky has argued that Moore's mixed goods create a dilemma which troubled Keynes and gave his views on social reform distinctly conservative rather than radical tendencies. This paper argues that Skidelsky' s 'mixed goods...

This paper investigates Keynes’s writings in the 1920s and 30s to uncover his views on the writing of economics, especially the writing of innovative or path-breaking works. His ideas were mainly presented in comments on other economists (particularly Marshall, Jevons and Malthus), and in...

In answer to the long-standing question, what kinds of knowledge and skills should economics majors master, Lee Hansen has advocated a proficiencies approach. According to this approach, the teaching and learning of economics undergraduates should be based on the attainment of (six) specified...

The economics profession, as a whole, has a gravely confused understanding of opportunity cost, a concept widely regarded as one of the most fundamental ideas of economics. The muddle arises because of the existence of two contrary conceptions of opportunity cost which are presumed to be the...

In exploring the learning experiences of students, some educationalists have advanced the 'threshold concept hypothesis' according to which certain concepts in various disciplines act as thresholds. Such concepts need to be mastered before further progress can be made in a discipline - they act...