Economy Studies Essential Lectures: A General Explanation
These teaching packs are designed for 90-minute (online or offline) sessions that can be added to existing courses. They help students become familiar with an important topic that is often neglected. At some universities lectures and sessions are typically longer than 90 minutes and at others shorter. Feel free to adjust the material to make it with your context and purpose.
Economics 101: Introducing the Economy
This lecture is based on the “Introducing the Economy” chapter from the Economy Studies book, which introduces the first building block in our framework for transforming the economics education. The aim is to give students a feel and understanding of the economy as part of a bigger whole. Thus, it is aimed to introduce to students before getting into the economics curriculum with theory and models. We want students to reflect on, and develop some answers to the following questions:
- What is the economy?
- Why is it important?
- How is it embedded in the larger social and natural world?
- What are the main current societal challenges?
- What roles do its experts, economists, have?
Instructor’s Guide
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