Learning Undergraduate Microeconomics by Reading the Masters
30 Pages Posted: 14 Aug 2010
Date Written: July 27, 2010
Abstract
The article presents an experience developed with upper undergraduate microeconomics students which consists of reading selected classical articles on key microeconomics topics rather than attending typical lectures. The paper has two main goals. First, to give a detailed account of the structure for an upper-intermediate microeconomics course based on students reading original research articles. The presentation emphasizes the aspects which may help instructors when implementing the approach to other courses. Second, in order to evaluate the proposed method, the paper determines whether student learning improves with such an approach. Besides, the paper’s results also allow instructors to determine what kind of article is more appropriate for upper-undergraduate students in microeconomics.
Keywords: research articles, teaching, active learning
JEL Classification: A22, D00
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