Teaching Macroeconomics After the Crisis : A Survey Among Undergraduate Instructors in Europe and the United States
Journal
The Journal of Economic Education
ISSN
0022-0485
ISSN-Digital
2152-4068
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2013-09-23
Author(s)
Abstract
The Great Recession raised questions of what and how macroeconomists teach at academic institutions around the globe, and what changes in the macroeconomics curriculum should be made. The authors conducted a survey of undergraduate macroeconomics instructors affiliated with colleges and universities in Europe and the United States at the end of 2010. The results show that courses feature very much the same lineups of models as they did before the crisis. A notable exception concerns public debt dynamics, which receives considerably more emphasis. The finer fabric of undergraduate macroeconomics teaching, however, shows substantial shifts: a host of topics related to financial markets has entered the curriculum, and there is more interest in economic history, the history of economic thought and case studies.
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Language
English
Keywords
curriculum
financial crisis
macroeconomics
teaching
undergraduate
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SEPS - Economic Policy
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher place
New York
Volume
44
Number
4
Start page
406
End page
416
Pages
11
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
224626