New Ideas & Materials for Educators & Students
In this booklet, we provide suggestions, content and teaching material for how to modernise and enrich macroeconomics courses. In doing so we hope to assist educators in improving and adapting the courses they teach, as well as helping students make suggestions for how this could be done. It is important to note that we pose all these suggestions as potential sources of inspiration, not a checklist of all the things that necessarily should be included. After all, there is a practical limit to what can be taught within a single course.
Table of Contents
Reading Guide
To get an overview of the Economy Studies project as a whole, start with the Summary.
For concrete suggestions on topics and material to enrich your own course, go directly to Adapting Macroeconomics Courses.
For a brief explanation of the key economic theories on business cycles and governments and how they can be taught, see the Pragmatic Pluralism chapters.
For ideas and materials on teaching students about the economy around them, its structures, institutions, statistics and sectors, take a look at the Building Block chapters.
To see what you can do to help modernize economics education at your own university, see the Conclusion.
Other booklets
This booklet is part of a series based on Economy Studies, a project for re-envisioning and redesigning economics courses and programs. These booklets provide an extract of the Economy Studies chapters tailored to specific audiences. Other booklets in this series include:
- Economy Studies for Students
- Economy Studies for Program Directors and Deans
- Economy Studies for Secondary Education
- Economy Studies for Business Schools
- Economy Studies for Public Administration & Law Programs
- Economy Studies for Economics 101
- Economy Studies for Microeconomics
- Economy Studies for Macroeconomics
- Economy Studies for Econometrics
- Economy Studies for Labour Economics
- Economy Studies for Public Economics
- Economy Studies for Environmental Economics
- Economy Studies for Development Economics
- Economy Studies for Industrial Organisation
- Economy Studies for Finance
- Economy Studies for Monetary Economics
- Economy Studies for International Economics
- Economy Studies for Game Theory
- Economy Studies for Behavioural Economics