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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, […]

July 23, 2025

Shrimply Irresistible – Sneaking economic content into a required general education course (Swinton)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-21.pdf

This paper describes a general education course that has been infused with economic concepts. The paper demonstrates a technique commonly used in economic education materials for […]

June 27, 2025

Strategic Interaction in Daughter-Son Care for an Elderly Parent (Stevens & Zeager)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-20.pdf

We represent the daughter-son interaction in providing care for an elderly parent as: (1) a coordination game or (2) a fair division problem. These formulations allow […]

June 18, 2025

In Pursuit of Increased Student Engagement: Gamification, Introductory Macroeconomics, and The Amazing Race (Burke, Robak, & Stumph)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-19.pdf

In this paper, we develop a gamification technique for three typical topics pertaining to macroeconomics classrooms, whereby the television game show The Amazing Race is used […]

June 14, 2025

From Policy Goals to Real-World Effects: A Policy Project (Izenwasser)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-18.pdf

I describe a multi-part group policy project in a Principles of Microeconomics course, where students critically analyze an assigned policy. In the first part, students write […]

May 30, 2025

Integrating Scoreboard for Excel into Introductory Economics (Haase, Moyer, & Frost)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-17.pdf

The Scoreboard for Excel website (https://www.scoreboardexcel.com/) offers instructors a free download of the program and tutorial videos for assignment creation. The Appendix to this article contains […]

May 16, 2025

Engaging Online Learners: Student-Led Interviews to Address Unemployment Misunderstandings (Burdina & Bhatia)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2025/2025-16.pdf

This paper presents a structured, student-led interview strategy designed to address common misconceptions about economic concepts, particularly the unemployment rate, in asynchronous online courses. By engaging […]