This paper examines the contributions of Anna Bugge Wicksell and Alva Reimer Myrdal to the economics of the franchise. Bugge Wicksell and Reimer Myrdal were formidable scholars, feminists, and politicians who worked on issues of women’s rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

To better understand the degree to which students enrolled in principles of macroeconomics are exposed to fundamental microeconomic concepts, we survey twenty popular textbooks. Using the TUCE guidelines as a framework, we categorize the microeconomic content of the textbooks by topic and amount...

The ‘Swedish Model’ of the welfare state was born from a confluence of geographic, cultural, political, and economic factors in the immediate post-war period. Its intellectual history, however, lay in a much longer tradition that originated with the economist Knut Wicksell (1851 – 1926). A...

I In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, universities closed to face-to-face learning, shifting entirely to online instruction midway through the spring 2020 semester. In this paper, we compare student performance in the COVID-19 affected semester to that of the previous three unaffected...

Boettke and Marciano’s The Soul of Classical Political Economy curates ten previously unpublished works by James M. Buchanan. The editorial introductions to these are independently valuable as scholarly works; they shed light on the context in which the papers, essays, and letters were written...

This study employs a random control trial experimental design to compare student learning outcomes in situations with live lectures and situations with ‘captured’ – virtually recorded asynchronous – lectures. Students across five sections of introductory microeconomics were randomly...

This paper considers two distinct but interrelated historiographic problems that influence our perceptions of Elinor Ostrom’s contributions to economics. The first relates to the difficulties women face in dual-career partnerships which often impact their ability to establish independent...

This paper outlines a simple approach for incorporating extraneous predictions into structural models. The method allows the forecaster to combine predictions derived from any source in a way that is consistent with the underlying structure of the model. The method is flexible enough that...

Our purpose is to examine the extent to which lakefront property owners view the invasive species zebra mussels and water milfoil as a dis-amenities. While both the ecological and aesthetic impacts of milfoil are universally negative, it less clear how property owners might view zebra mussel...