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Re: WSJ on teaching economics



At 08:34 PM 10/19/2000 -0700, you wrote:

Each year, about 1.4 million U.S. college students enroll in an
introductory economics course. It's "easily one of the most difficult
subjects to teach. It's advanced calculus in disguise," says Murray
Wolfson of California State University, Fullerton.

"The kids just don't believe a word of what I'm teaching. The relevance
isn't obvious to them."

isn't he the author of a worthless screed against Marxian economics?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine




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