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Rethinking the Teaching of Econ 101

Rethinking the Teaching of Econ 101
A graduating student wears a money lei, a necklace made of U.S. dollar bills, at the Pasadena City College graduation ceremony in Pasadena, Calif., on, June 14, 2019. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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A recent report in The Christian Science Monitor details a great stirring among academic economists about how to teach Econ 101. This is both good news and bad news. The good news is that, at long last, the profession is acknowledging and growing dissatisfied with its own stale methodology.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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