From Abba to Zeppelin, Led: Using Music to Teach Economics

What Would Adam Smith Have on His iPod? Uses of Music in Teaching the History of Economic Thought

“…Their Web site, "From ABBA to Zeppelin, Led: Using music to teach economics," includes lyrics, links to videos, and discussion prompts that help educators integrate music into their introductory and intermediate economics courses. 4 More recently, Mateer developed his own Web site for teaching principles of economics, which contains a vast array of music that may be used to teach key concepts. 5 Instructors have experimented with using music in two ways in their economics courses: to enhance instruction and to differentiate assignments.…”

Humor To The Rescue: How To Make Introductory Economics An Appealing Social Science For Non-Majors

“…Economics teachers are more eager than before to experiment with such devices as music, movies, stories, and debates to teach their courses (Lawson et al, 2008;Leet & Houser, 2003;Colander, 2000;Vo & Morris, 2006). Yet despite these noble attempts to improve upon the way the introductory economics course is taught, they have regrettably done very little to change the negative student perception of economics as a dry, difficult, and boring subject (Armento, 1987;Ray, 1991;Colander, 2000;Deiter, 2000).…”

Teaching the Economic Way of Thinking Through Op-Eds

“…active learning. Economics educators have suggested a variety of methods to get students to engage in active learning, including: classroom exercises utilizing internet research (Simkins 1999); online assignments and discussion boards (Vachris 1999), watching and discussing clips from popular television shows (Hall 2005;Gillis and Hall 2010;, watching portions of movies with economic based content (Mateer and Stephenson 2011), listening to music with economic themes Lawson et al 2008), and classroom experiments (Hunsader et al 2011;Nikolaev 2014). 2 Writing is one of the more traditional ways to get students to "do" economics.…”