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Educating Economists: The Teagle Discussion on Re-evaluating the Undergraduate Economics Major [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm
  • Išleidimo metai: 27-Nov-2009
  • Leidėjas: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1848445806
  • ISBN-13: 9781848445802
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm
  • Išleidimo metai: 27-Nov-2009
  • Leidėjas: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1848445806
  • ISBN-13: 9781848445802
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
The economics major is a central part of a college education. But is that economics major doing what it is meant to do? And if not, how should it be changed? This book raises a set of provocative questions that encourage readers to look at the economics major in a different light than it is typically considered and provides a series of recommendations for change.

Responding to a Teagle Foundation initiative on the role of majors in higher education, the contributors - eminent economists and administrators - consider the relationship between the goals and objectives of the economics major and those of a liberal education. They address questions such as: What is the appropriate training for a person who will be teaching in a liberal arts school? What incentives would motivate the creation of institutional value through teaching and not simply research? They also explore whether the disciplinary nature of undergraduate education is squeezing out the 'big-think' questions, and replacing them with 'little-think' questions, and whether we should change graduate training of economists to better prepare them to be teachers, rather than researchers.

Providing a stimulating discussion of the economics major by many of the leaders in US economic education, this book will prove a thought provoking read for those with a special interest in economics and economics education, particularly academics, lecturers, course administrators, students and researchers.

Recenzijos

'The volume, full of thoughtful ideas by academic economists and administrators, is the outgrowth of a 2006 Teagle Foundation grant to help enrich undergraduate education. . . I recommend that this book be shared among colleagues in undergraduate liberal arts colleges with economics majors to initiate or further discussions on the appropriate goals and objectives of the major vis-a-vis liberal education. Doctoral and Master's comprehensive universities with undergraduate economics majors and accredited business schools would still find the discussions in Educating Economists useful in thinking creatively about appropriate undergraduate and graduate economics skills and content, especially to train future undergraduate professors.' -- Deborah M. Figart, Eastern Economic Journal 'This volume is an excellent outcome of an American Economic Association Committee for Economic Education project aimed at advancing the teaching of economics within a liberal arts context. Dave Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick assembled a most able panel of contributors for this effort that includes dialogue on what should be taught, how it should be taught, and how that teaching and learning should be assessed and rewarded. To the editors' credit, they have not attempted to dictate policy but to stimulate debate on the topics. This volume is a must read for anyone seriously interested in the teaching of economics at the tertiary level.' -- William E. Becker, Indiana University, Bloomington, US

List of figures viii
List of contributors ix
Preface by Michael Watts xix
Acknowledgments xxvi
Introduction: a discussion, not a report by David Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick xxvii
PART 1 THE TEAGLE REPORT
1 The Teagle Foundation report: the economics major as part of a liberal education
3
David Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick
PART 2 CHALLENGING THE CONTENT: WHAT DO WE TEACH?
2 Teaching students to "think about the economy"
43
Joseph Persky
3 The economics major as illiberal education
48
Stephen A. Marglin
4 Moral reasoning in economics
53
Jonathan B. Wight
5 Thinking for yourself, like an economist
59
Robert F. Garnett
6 Teaching economics students as if they are geniuses
65
James Wible
7 The role of depth in a liberal education
76
Benjamin M. Friedman
PART 3 CHANGING THE WAY WE TEACH ECONOMICS
8 Using pedagogical change to improve student learning in the economics major
83
Scott Simkins and Mark Maier
9 Providing incentives for change: evaluating teaching
92
Ann L. Owen
10 Reflections on introductory course structures
95
Paul W. Grimes
11 Economics and liberal education: why, where, and how
99
Michael K. Salemi
12 Reinvigorating liberal education with an expected proficiencies approach to the academic major
107
W. Lee Hansen
PART 4 STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS AND THE INTERDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF ECONOMICS
13 The integrative nature of the economics major
129
Jessica Holmes
14 The availability of interdisciplinary economics educators and the actions of deans: explaining the small contribution of economics to a liberal education
133
Arthur H. Goldsmith
15 The economics major at a crossroads
145
David Kennett
16 Crafting the economics major as an exercise in property rights
154
Neil T. Skaggs
17 Preserving liberal arts education: a futile endeavor
157
Brendan O'Flaherty
PART 5 VIEWS FROM THE ADMINISTRATION
18 Good researchers make good teachers
163
Catharine Hill
19 Overstating the challenges, underestimating the solutions
170
George Daly
20 How the shifting landscape affects our students
173
David W. Breneman
21 The role of incentives (and culture) in rebalancing the economics major
182
Bradley W. Bateman
PART 6 VIEWS FROM THE STUDENTS
22 What economics majors think of the economics major
191
Steven Jones, Eric Hoest, Richie Fug Mahesh Dahal, and David Colander
PART 7 CONCLUSION
23 Really thinking like an economist
215
John J. Siegfried
References 225
Index 234
Edited by David Colander, Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics, Middlebury College, and KimMarie McGoldrick, Professor of Economics, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Business, Department of Economics, University of Richmond, US