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October 29, 2025

Economic Lessons in Taylor Swift’s Lyrics (King, DeWind, Rousu, & Wooten)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-27.pdf

This paper presents quick and easy references to lyrics from Taylor Swift’s songs to assist in teaching topics found in introductory economics courses. We share lyrics […]

October 28, 2025

Common Scents Economics (Geerling, Grooms, & Mateer)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-26.pdf

Teaching externalities is challenging due to their abstract nature and students’ difficulty grasping market failure and corrective policies. In this paper, we present a novel way […]

October 15, 2025

Something’s Fishy: A Lesson on Market Structure and Collusion in the Canned Tuna Market (Flesher)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-25.pdf

This lesson uses a real-world example of price-fixing with a product that almost all students are familiar with to demonstrate the effects of market concentration and […]

September 17, 2025

Socioeconomic portraits: Leveraging the production possibilities frontier to expand coverage of inequality and economic history in principles classes (Milliman & Kruggel)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-24.pdf

Some economists favor expanding coverage of inequality and economic history in principles classes. We argue that the production possibilities frontier (PPF) – a standard principles model […]

August 22, 2025

How Economics Instructors Can Teach Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the “Cradle of Political Economy” (Dupont)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-23.pdf

This article draws on insights from the historical scholarship in economics to motivate a classroom discussion of the role of entrepreneurs in the market process. Richard […]

July 23, 2025

Wrasslin’ with Economics (Larsen)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-22.pdf

Amid declining enrollments and financial constraints, economics departments are exploring innovative teaching methods beyond traditional “chalk and talk” (Becker & Watts, 1996). While in-class games, simulations, […]