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Teaching Macro Principles after the Financial Crisis

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Recent events should force everyone who teaches macroeconomics (or finance, for that matter) to reconsider their curriculums. In this short article, the author shares his thoughts about what should and should not be changed in the way economists teach macro principles to beginning students. Two tradeoffs are paramount and must be faced by every instructor: (1) how much additional complexity must be and can be introduced in a principles course in which the students are relatively unsophisticated; and (2) although it is easy to think of new topics that recent events “demand” instructors add, it is much harder to think of topics to delete . Yet economists should understand the necessity of choice forced by (time) budget constraints.

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  • Alan Blinder, 2010. "Teaching Macro Principles after the Financial Crisis," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(4), pages 385-390, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jeduce:v:41:y:2010:i:4:p:385-390
    DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2010.510394
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    JEL classification:

    • A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate
    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate
    • E20 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • D40 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - General
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises

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