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Article: Using a conceptual matrix to organize a course in the history of economic thought.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Economic Education
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Articles in this journal often focus on developing students' higher-level cognitive skills. Implicitly, they question whether the traditional economics curriculum leads students past the lowest levels of thinking--whether, in fact, it teaches them to "think like economists." The authors of these articles regularly point to courses in the history of economic thought as particularly good vehicles for developing critical thinking. Thoma (1993, 130) points out that teaching economics from a history of thought perspective "highlights economic theory and policy as an ongoing, evolving process of development. It makes it explicitly clear that economic `laws' and theories are not ...