The idea that office educators should teach economic concepts and discuss economic issues should be seen as an opportunity to fulfill business education's responsibility to help office education students develop skills and understanding that will better prepare them for successful careers. (JOW)

Tips for taking economics tours abroad are provided and advantages and gains for students are illustrated through a tour of British economics students to Norway. (RM)

Describes "Pioneers of the '80s," a simulation exercise that can help people experience one of the worst possible outcomes of our economic problems and then devise creative ways of response and prevention. (JOW)

Recently there has been a burst of activity in the development of resources in economics for teachers in grades K-12. California organizations, national organizations, and teaching materials are described. (SR)

Describes a study which estimated the amount of economic knowledge a student should learn from a college class. (AM)

It is imperative that individuals understand the economic system in which they operate. Business educators should address people's needs by preparing them as consumers, producers, and citizens. (JOW)

Demonstrates a trade-off relationship between price inflation and unemployment known as the Phillips Curve. A method for teaching this relationship in college economics classes is presented. (AM)

Demonstrates how benefit-cost and present-value analyses can be used to assess the potential social benefits of government projects and to illustrate how interest rates affect decision-making in government and business. (AYC)

Contributions to five leading economics journals in terms of institutional affiliations of authors are analyzed. It is noted that dramatic shifts in contributions among universities occurred between the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s. Possible reasons for these shifts are set forth. (Author/KC)

Data from 99 students who completed a microeconomics course indicated that better grades in calculus led to significantly better grades in microeconomics. Higher levels of prior achievement as shown by grade point average correlated with better microeconomics performance. (SK)

Offers a framework with which to analyze growth in a small economy with perfect capital mobility. Produces a diagrammatic representation of steady states that differs from the usual closed-economy Solow-Swan diagram. Uses the diagrams to compare open economy steady states with closed ones. Illustrate the possibility of endogenous income growth.…

Using the MBA curriculum as its focus, discusses both the rationale for including economics in the program for various curricular models and the particular relevance of the subject to management students in the transition environment of Central and Eastern European countries. (EV)

Presents strategies for basic business writing activities based on a model that views writing as an art of discovery, that assumes topics are developed intuitively, and that views writing as recursive and not linear. The use of current economic events as a source of writing activities is encouraged. (SK)

Provides a conceptual framework for teaching price theory and the substitution effects of price changes. Uses the example of student choice of course load to illustrate the usual substitution effect of a price change between goods, and is extended to substitution among differentiated products within a heterogeneous good. (LS)

Outlines the differences between the traditional and modern theoretical models of demand for money. States that the two models are often used interchangeably in textbooks, causing ambiguity. Argues against the use of linear specifications that imply that income velocity can increase without limit and that autonomous components of aggregate demand…