Teaching Economics in Troubled Times

Mark C. Schug and William C. Wood

Mark Schug and William C. Wood’s new book is Teaching Economics in Troubled Times. This site supports the book. Schug and Wood edited a special issue of Social Education in 2009 on new developments in economics teaching that came to the attention of editors at the British publisher Routledge. Routledge suggested a book-length treatment edited by Schug and Wood, with contributors chosen from the ranks of up-and-coming and distinguished economic educators. The result is Teaching Economics in Troubled Times: Theory and Practice for Secondary Social Studies.

Keynes vs. Hayek in rap videos

John Maynard Keynes is dead but not forgotten, Lakeland College’s Scott Niederjohn reminds readers in his chapter of Teaching Economics in Troubled Times. A young Keynes appears in this rap video with ideological nemesis F.A. Hayek. Recommended!

And here’s round two:

Teachers can be millionaires, too

Mark Schug and William Wood wrote a well-received article in Social Education titled, “Teachers Can Be Millionaires, Too.” Schug and Wood hope to elaborate the theme in a future work.

Accolades for the editors

The editors of Teaching Economics in Troubled Times have both been honored in the Great Teachers Series of the Gus A. Stavros Center at Florida State University. See the entire list of winners here. You may also be interested in the text of interviews with Mark Schug and William Wood.

New computer game teaches personal finance

There’s a new computer game that teaches personal finance in the setting of a secret agent making assignments to students, who assemble teams of operatives and go on missions. The game, called “Gen i Revolution,” is available free for classroom use. Find out more at http://genirevolution.org.