June 21, 2017

From Continuous to Discrete: An Alternative Approach to Teaching Consumer Choice (Holmgren)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2/1/1-1.pdf
In many principles of microeconomics courses, the concept of consumer choice is not covered due to its complexity. However, this severely limits students who plan to […]
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June 21, 2017

Building a Taylor Rule Using FRED (Mendez-Carbajo, Taylor & Bayles)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2/1/1-2.pdf
This article discusses how to build and display a graph of a Taylor rule with FRED, the St. Louis Fed’s economic database. The article provides additional […]
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June 21, 2017

Economic Lessons from the Musical Hamilton (Rousu & Conrad)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2/1/1-3.pdf
The musical Hamilton is the most popular musical in recent history and might be the best single album one could use to teach economic concepts. We […]
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June 21, 2017

Super-Economics Man! Using Superheroes to Teach Economics (O’Roark)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2/1/1-4.pdf
People the world over are familiar with comic book heroes. These characters have been portrayed on pages, television and movie screens and even in song for […]
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December 15, 2016

Explaining “In the Aggregate” Concepts with Clickers (Olney)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/1/2/2-1.pdf
Concepts such as the marginal propensity to consume can lead some students to respond, “But that’s not how I would behave!” Using clickers (or any classroom […]
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December 15, 2016

An Exercise on Creating a Student Expenditure Basket (Sankaran, Mulroney & Corcoran)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/1/2/2-2.pdf
The creation of a student expenditure basket as a student-led project engages students in interactive learning and provides an estimate of the cost of living for […]
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December 15, 2016

Advice on Implementing Supplemental Instruction in an Introductory Level Economics Course (Enz & Tierney)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/1/2/2-3.pdf
Supplemental Instruction (SI) is a program where a current undergraduate student assists a professor in delivering course material by providing a peer-delivered format.  The use of […]
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December 15, 2016

Mattress Money (Chappell)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/1/2/2-4.pdf
Students sometimes ask if saving in the form of placing cash under a mattress can decouple the link between saving and investment. This paper provides a […]
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May 25, 2016

JET: A New Journal Takes Off! (Ghent & Mateer)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/1/1/1-1.pdf
The mission of Journal of Economics Teaching is to transmit innovative teaching ideas to teachers of economics at all levels. Linda S. Ghent and G. Dirk […]
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May 25, 2016

Herd Immunity: A Classroom Experiment (Grant, Bruehler & Chiritescu)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/1/1/1-2.pdf
Outbreaks of dangerous, preventable diseases have drawn attention to individuals who fail to obtain available and effective vaccines. This classroom experiment demonstrates the basic cost-benefit trade […]
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