Another case study from Erkan Demirbas using an everyday object to teach economics! A semi-transparent tupperware lid reveals the relationship between productivity and cost. #teachecon #edusky economicsnetwork.ac.uk/showcase/dem...
Flipping the Lid on Economics: Making Diminishing Returns Visible
Improving economics teaching and learning for over 20 years
economicsnetwork.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Another case study from Erkan Demirbas using an everyday object to teach economics! A semi-transparent tupperware lid reveals the relationship between productivity and cost. #teachecon #edusky economicsnetwork.ac.uk/showcase/dem...
The Engel curve for an inferior good is a parabola: first it is normal at lower income then it becomes inferior at higher income. #EconSky #TeachEcon
Not sure what’s more worrisome: that McDonalds low-income consumer traffic is down double digits — or that high-income consumer traffic is UP double digits.
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$MCD
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Engel curve for an inferior good is a parabola: first it is normal at lower income then it becomes inferior at higher income. #EconSky #TeachEcon
Awesome text by Lea Bottmer, Guido Imbens, Jason Weitze and Mary Wooters: "An Undergraduate Course in Causality"
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#EconSky 📉📈
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#EconSky 📉📈
An Undergraduate Course in Causality
Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc
✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning
We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.
✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning
We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.
It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching
Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
November 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
#oilprices #gasprices #fyp #fypシ #foryoupage
TikTok video by Mr Global
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October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Another productive day for professors. At the faculty assembly, we are debating whether the dextrose sweets we hand out at the education fair should be replaced with gummy bears or chocolate.
#TeachEcon
#TeachEcon
a woman is sitting in front of a microphone with her hand on her chin .
ALT: a woman is sitting in front of a microphone with her hand on her chin .
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October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Another productive day for professors. At the faculty assembly, we are debating whether the dextrose sweets we hand out at the education fair should be replaced with gummy bears or chocolate.
#TeachEcon
#TeachEcon
The shoes on your feet or a hat on your head can help create a memorable teaching moment, if you're prepared to take a creative, role-play approach. Erkan Demirbas' case study gives examples from his Economics and Data Analytics lectures. #TeachEcon #EduSky economicsnetwork.ac.uk/showcase/dem...
From Hats to Jumps: Embodied and Object Based Learning in Economics and Statistics
Improving economics teaching and learning for over 20 years
economicsnetwork.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The shoes on your feet or a hat on your head can help create a memorable teaching moment, if you're prepared to take a creative, role-play approach. Erkan Demirbas' case study gives examples from his Economics and Data Analytics lectures. #TeachEcon #EduSky economicsnetwork.ac.uk/showcase/dem...
📢EEA's Education Committee opens this year's Seedcorn Fund, supporting development & implementation of small-scale innovative projects aiming to improve the delivery of HE & undergrad or postgrad students' learning experience
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October 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Cool paper to use in class #EconSky #TeachEcon
Adam Smith may have won the intellectual battle of ideas, but mercantilism has survived, and sometimes to good effects, from Dani Rodrik www.nber.org/papers/w34353
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Cool paper to use in class #EconSky #TeachEcon
New paper alert: this one builds on my legal research on price-fixing in the canned tuna market to help students learn how market concentration affects consumers. It’s a fun lesson. #econed #teachecon
journalofeconomicsteaching.org/somethings-f...
journalofeconomicsteaching.org/somethings-f...
Something's Fishy: A Lesson on Market Structure and Collusion in the Canned Tuna Market (Flesher) - Journal of Economics Teaching
This lesson uses a real-world example of price-fixing with a product that almost all students are familiar with to demonstrate the effects of market concentration and […]
journalofeconomicsteaching.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New paper alert: this one builds on my legal research on price-fixing in the canned tuna market to help students learn how market concentration affects consumers. It’s a fun lesson. #econed #teachecon
journalofeconomicsteaching.org/somethings-f...
journalofeconomicsteaching.org/somethings-f...
Has anyone done something similar? How did it go?
I’m a tenured professor in Germany, so I can afford to experiment a bit without much risk 😉
#TeachEcon #EduSky
I’m a tenured professor in Germany, so I can afford to experiment a bit without much risk 😉
#TeachEcon #EduSky
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Has anyone done something similar? How did it go?
I’m a tenured professor in Germany, so I can afford to experiment a bit without much risk 😉
#TeachEcon #EduSky
I’m a tenured professor in Germany, so I can afford to experiment a bit without much risk 😉
#TeachEcon #EduSky
Has anyone here tried teaching in a no tech classroom? When I first started teaching, students usually had 1 device. Now it’s pretty normal to see 3. This term I even have a few with 4.
I’m thinking of trying a no tech version of my Micro next semester, just paper and pencil again. (1/2) #TeachEcon
I’m thinking of trying a no tech version of my Micro next semester, just paper and pencil again. (1/2) #TeachEcon
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Has anyone here tried teaching in a no tech classroom? When I first started teaching, students usually had 1 device. Now it’s pretty normal to see 3. This term I even have a few with 4.
I’m thinking of trying a no tech version of my Micro next semester, just paper and pencil again. (1/2) #TeachEcon
I’m thinking of trying a no tech version of my Micro next semester, just paper and pencil again. (1/2) #TeachEcon
Today in the lecture hall.
First, I’m starting to feel hungry.😕
Second, when did the local pizza place get new boxes?
🤓
#TeachEcon
First, I’m starting to feel hungry.😕
Second, when did the local pizza place get new boxes?
🤓
#TeachEcon
October 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Today in the lecture hall.
First, I’m starting to feel hungry.😕
Second, when did the local pizza place get new boxes?
🤓
#TeachEcon
First, I’m starting to feel hungry.😕
Second, when did the local pizza place get new boxes?
🤓
#TeachEcon
Happy EconEd month to all that celebrate #teachecon
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Happy EconEd month to all that celebrate #teachecon
Today I’m teaching in an MBA programme on another campus. The sparkling water comes in three versions, depending on how adventurous you’re feeling about the bubbles. #TeachEcon
October 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Today I’m teaching in an MBA programme on another campus. The sparkling water comes in three versions, depending on how adventurous you’re feeling about the bubbles. #TeachEcon
Anyway, just wanted to share, in case other faculty are thinking about this. #teachecon
It's particularly resonant for me because so many of my students are freshmen, and they're trying to navigate choices that have gotten more treacherous than they need to be.
It's particularly resonant for me because so many of my students are freshmen, and they're trying to navigate choices that have gotten more treacherous than they need to be.
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Anyway, just wanted to share, in case other faculty are thinking about this. #teachecon
It's particularly resonant for me because so many of my students are freshmen, and they're trying to navigate choices that have gotten more treacherous than they need to be.
It's particularly resonant for me because so many of my students are freshmen, and they're trying to navigate choices that have gotten more treacherous than they need to be.
Does anyone have slides that lend themselves for undergraduate teaching, which go step by step through a behavioral lab experiment, and would be willing to share them with me?
October 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Think of the economy as like baking a cake. H‑1B visas supply missing ingredients -- high skill STEM workers. If Trump cuts off access: fewer projects get baked, worse recipes get used, or we import the cake. None of those make Americans better off. #TheProfessorIsIn #TeachEcon
October 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Think of the economy as like baking a cake. H‑1B visas supply missing ingredients -- high skill STEM workers. If Trump cuts off access: fewer projects get baked, worse recipes get used, or we import the cake. None of those make Americans better off. #TheProfessorIsIn #TeachEcon
I developed a new diagram for teaching monetary aggregates. The definitions for the money supply M = C + D and the monetary base B = C + R give us the following diagram. Can you tell what determines the size of the "???" gap?
#Economics #EconSky #TeachEcon
#Economics #EconSky #TeachEcon
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I developed a new diagram for teaching monetary aggregates. The definitions for the money supply M = C + D and the monetary base B = C + R give us the following diagram. Can you tell what determines the size of the "???" gap?
#Economics #EconSky #TeachEcon
#Economics #EconSky #TeachEcon
Discovered this on my classroom desk today, and I’m not certain I should try it. #TeachEcon
Maybe something for @tmartens.bsky.social 🤭!
Maybe something for @tmartens.bsky.social 🤭!
October 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Discovered this on my classroom desk today, and I’m not certain I should try it. #TeachEcon
Maybe something for @tmartens.bsky.social 🤭!
Maybe something for @tmartens.bsky.social 🤭!
Call for principles of microeconomics instructors. Deadline approaching: Oct 1. #teachecon @uoflecon.bsky.social @justinwolfers.bsky.social
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#EconSky #EconX #Econ
#EconSky #EconX #Econ
October 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Call for principles of microeconomics instructors. Deadline approaching: Oct 1. #teachecon @uoflecon.bsky.social @justinwolfers.bsky.social
Why is the U.S. bailing out Argentina?
Today's Decode Econ newsletter covers this topic. www.decodeecon.com/p/why-is-the... #Econtwitter #Teachecon
Today's Decode Econ newsletter covers this topic. www.decodeecon.com/p/why-is-the... #Econtwitter #Teachecon
September 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Why is the U.S. bailing out Argentina?
Today's Decode Econ newsletter covers this topic. www.decodeecon.com/p/why-is-the... #Econtwitter #Teachecon
Today's Decode Econ newsletter covers this topic. www.decodeecon.com/p/why-is-the... #Econtwitter #Teachecon
Cool event! #EconSky #TeachEcon
✨ Join Us for the WiE Speed Dating Event!
📅 Date: 8th October 2025
⏰ Time: 18:00 – 19:00 CET
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📅 Date: 8th October 2025
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📍 Location: Online (join from anywhere in the world!)
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September 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Cool event! #EconSky #TeachEcon