An online survey among undergraduate macroeconomics instructors reveals that roughly half of them were scared when the crisis erupted and remain wary that more may be in the offing. As regards teaching, courses feature much the same lineups of models as they did before the crisis. A striking...

The paper sets out to describe and compare economics enrolment and graduation trends in the United States, Germany and Switzerland. Severe downturns are observed in all three countries at least since the beginning of this decade. This motivates a discussion of possible causes and remedial...