Interested in knowing what your students know before they get to your principles of economics class. Then, think about taking a look at the economics section of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It is an assessment that measures twelfth-graders’ understa...

As nearly everyone in the country who teaches at a college or university knows we all have to be accountable now to our respective accreditating agencies and state legislatures when it comes to measuring student learning outcomes. In fact, just mentioning the phrase se...

Helping students write in economics can be challenging but at the same time rewarding. This is a task that we can't leave simply to the English teachers. Of course the biggest objection that many professors have who do not have the luxury of teaching assistants is the...

If you know someone who says that economists don’t write with passion or if you are tired of listening to the old saw that economics is the dismal science then read this book and pass it on. “The Why Axis” is about the importance of incentives in economic decision-maki...

This is not your father's economics book. It's not even simply a behavioral economics book. This is a book that is both practical and also very much grounded in economic theory. It's about how markets actually work not necessarily the way they should work. It's also ab...