Teaching Macro Principles "after" the Financial Crisis

Autor/in	Blinder, Alan
Titel	Teaching Macro Principles "after" the Financial Crisis
Quelle	In: Journal of Economic Education, 41 (2010) 4, S.385-390 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0485
Schlagwörter	Economics Education; Macroeconomics; Economic Climate; Financial Problems; Introductory Courses; College Curriculum; Undergraduate Study + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftskunde; Makroökonomie; Wirtschaftslage; Einführungskurs; Grundstudium
Abstract	Recent events should force everyone who teaches macroeconomics (or finance, for that matter) to reconsider their curriculums. In this short article, the author shares his thoughts about what should and should not be changed in the way economists teach macro principles to beginning students. Two tradeoffs are paramount and must be faced by every instructor: (1) how much additional complexity "must be" and "can be" introduced in a principles course in which the students are relatively unsophisticated; and (2) although it is easy to think of new topics that recent events "demand" instructors add, it is much harder to think of topics to "delete". Yet economists should understand the necessity of choice forced by (time) budget constraints. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10