ANNOUNCEMENT: Teaching Tools Section

Economic Inquiry is pleased to announce that beginning with this issue it will include a Teaching Tools Section. Its purpose is to provide economics teachers with successful ideas and applications that can alter what they do in the classroom. The following types of submissions are encouraged:

i) INNOVATIVE CLASSROOM GAMES/EXERCISES-this issue’s “The Oligopoly Game” is an example.

ii) NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE APPLICATIONS-include the (short) article as well as a brief annotative guide which informs the reader of the key principles/topic involved. The submission should include sug- gested questions and solutions. Newspaper and magazine articles which make clear analytical errors are especially encouraged.

iii) BRIEF DISCUSSIONS OF CURRENT POLICY ISSUES-present a 2- 3 page discussion of a current policy issue that instructors could use in their classes. The cover stories from the publication THE MARGIN on the topics of tax reform, health care, and discrimination serve as examples.

iv) APPLICATIONS-a particularly good example of some key concept/ principle. The “boxes” in such intermediate microeconomic theory texts as Hirschleifer and Mansfield Serve as examples.

No fees need accompany these submissions which should be sent to:

Professor Robert L. Moore TTS Editor Economic Inquiry Department of Economics Occidental College Los Angeles, CA 90041

Fxonornic Inquiry Vol. XXV, October 1987, p. 726