Teaching the Introductory Course in Economics

Abstract

The American ideal in education: training for citizenship in a democracy, 88. — Importance of economics to this end, 90. — The borrowed German ideal, leading to research and lectures, has done harm, 91. — The teacher the central figure, 93. — Multitude of recent aids to teaching economics, 96. — Outlines, selections, materials, 97. — Questions and Problems, 100. — The serviceableness of these devices likely to be overestimated, 102. — Effectiveness in teaching, not research, should be the main aim of the college, 105.