How should the financial crisis change how we teach economics?

Journal of Economic Education

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 403-409

  Shiller, Robert ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

financial crisis; teaching macroeconomics

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EID: 77957327959     PISSN: 00220485     EISSN: 21524068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2010.510409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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