I know it takes much more effort, but I wouldn't assign a textbook at all. Instead, I would pick out a selection of articles on macroeconomic topics you think are important and assign them. Early in the class, I would do things written at a newspaper level. towards the middle I'd start easing them into journal articles.
Remember Keynes famously taught by coming into class with a newspaper, reading an article out loud, then teaching the material necessary for understanding Also thinking at a social level, the extra demand you lay on them in such a class might be balanced out by the fact that you aren't forcing them to spend any money on books they will at most skim. If this is impossible, I'd assign a history of economic thought text like Hunt's or Lefteris Tsoulfidis's. -- -Nathan Tankus ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
