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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 28, 2025

Teaching Production with SimCity BuildIt (Zhi Sim)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2024/2024-22.pdf

This article presents an alternative way to introduce topics in production that are commonly taught in introductory economics using a popular mobile game called SimCity BuildIt. […]

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 […]