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I think the problem with Economics in this case (I'm an undergraduate) is that it has become overly mathematical, often for its own sake. A great article to re
by 44Aman 15y ago
I think the problem with Economics in this case (I'm an undergraduate) is that it has become overly mathematical, often for its own sake.
A great article to read is here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30042661 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30042661 - much of UG level Economics can be taught and explained with the use of diagrams and graphs.
Overall, I think the generation gap argument is fairly sound - we aren't taught in the same way that our parents and their parents were, and for better or worse, this is how it is.
- billswift 15y agoI like the way Sowell did it (recounted in his A Personal Odyssey); when teaching economics to engineers he concentrated on a "literary" conceptual teaching style, since he already knew they were competent in the needed math. Presumably, though he didn't discuss this directly, he used more math with those who needed it to understand the mathematical underpinnings of the theories. His idea was to present the coursework in a way that would make the students think about what they were doing. As he put it about the engineering students, if he presented it in the regular mathematical way, they could have just plugged the numbers into the formulas without necessarily understanding what he wanted them to learn.