This post is by S. Abu Rizvi, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. An economist and former Honors College dean at the University of Vermont, he will be joining Lafayette ...

Recent pedagogical research in economics has increasingly emphasised the use of experiments and media to transform traditional instruction methods. This innovative approach combines interactive ...

ECONOMISTS ARE keen fans of dynamism, but there are too few signs of it in economics teaching. A survey of American lecturers last year found that their methods, which rely on lectures and assigned ...

Arnold Zellner, a leading economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business who pioneered the field of Bayesian econometrics, died August 11 at his home in the Hyde Park neighborhood of ...

Simply sign up to the Business education myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There was a time when any self-respecting economics undergraduate could distinguish between neo-Keynesian, new ...

Simply sign up to the Business education myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Until recently, the first-year business and economics syllabus that Carlos Cortinhas had to teach could, by ...

On this single honours programme, you'll develop analytical and quantitative skills applicable to a wide range of careers in economics and beyond. We teach economics in a technically rigorous way, ...

When economics faculty members at James Madison University received their annual evaluations this summer, some of them were taken aback. Had their teaching gotten much worse all of a sudden? Six ...

In addition to housekeeping and cooking of everyday food, home economics classes teach diversity and equality, interaction, orderliness and responsibility. All of these skills are also needed in ...