Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
1985
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy, published by The Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, volume 4, 1985.
Abstract
I often teach Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, one of the courses economics majors are required to take. Macroeconomic theory is primarily directed to questions concerning inflation, employment, and economic growth. Currently, there are two professionally sanctioned "ways of thinking" about these issues-"Keynesian economics" and "monetarism".
Intermediate macroeconomics is of little value to our majors if they leave the course unable to "think like an economist". Accordingly, it is my principal objective in this course that, by the end of the semester, students be able to "do" both Keynesian economics and monetarism - that is, to think their way through concrete issues from either perspective.
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