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Teaching climate change to ECON 101 students

dc.contributor.authorJahangir, Junaid
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-20T15:28:30Z
dc.date.available2023-03-20T15:28:30Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThere is a growing recognition that ECON 101 does not adequately prepare students to address the pressing issues of our times including climate change.However,options such as the CORE text are unsuitable because of information overloadand the use of advanced technical concepts and techniques.The objective in this paper is to introduce climate change to ECON 101 students in a waythat minimizesstudent confusion,instructor workload,and upholdsMankiw’s approach of clarity before nuance. Anew approach is delineated based on popular books, magazine articles, a YouTube video,and simple exercises.Thisfive-part approach consistsof emphasizing the urgency of climate change, thinking outside the box through geoengineering, the limits of individual actions like buying local or going vegan, the comparative outlook on various policy toolswitha simple equation solving exercise,and gametheoryto broach the issue of international collaboration.
dc.identifier.citationJahangir, J. B. (2022) Teaching climate change to ECON 101 students. Journal for Economic Educators, 22(2). https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/jfee/article/view/2287
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3029
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectECON 101
dc.subjectCORE
dc.subjectteaching economics
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.titleTeaching climate change to ECON 101 studentsen
dc.typeArticle

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