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Feb 5, 2021

Creating good multiple-choice question exams

I can remember encountering multiple-choice questions (MCQs) as a student — I assumed that the instructor was neglecting their duties as an educator, by either outsourcing the assessment or opting for convenience in grading over effectiveness in learning. And so I am instinctively skeptical about their utilisation. However, three things…

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Creating good multiple-choice question exams
Creating good multiple-choice question exams

Jul 31, 2020

Which way forward for Belarus?

On Sunday, August 9th the people of Belarus will go to the polls for the 6th Presidential election since independence. The incumbent is widely expected to win, which he has done for the previous five. He probably already has. And yet according to Andrew Roth, writing for The Guardian, something…

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Jun 25, 2020

Enlightened Management

“Progress is sustainable, indefinitely. But only by people who engage in a particular kind of thinking and behaviour — the problem-solving and problem-creating kind characteristic of the Enlightenment. And that requires the optimism of a dynamic society” (Deutsch, 2011, p.423) Management is the process by which people control resources, and…

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Enlightened Management
Enlightened Management

May 31, 2020

Sources of Consumer Surplus

Following Sam Bowman’s excellent list of “Things I recommend you buy and use” (which inspired Rob Wiblin’s edition), here is my own version. My focus is more on sharing instances of consumer surplus than providing a recommendation for purchases, but I also think it’s a great way to share advice…

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Sources of Consumer Surplus
Sources of Consumer Surplus

May 30, 2020

How homeschooling has impacted my teaching

Would you believe it? I’ve spent years producing original, expert commentary on the economy and financial markets (see Kaleidic Economics) and yet the time I make it onto something like The Chart Book (at 28:15) it’s for a tweet I posted while homeschooling. As a professional educator I’ve enjoyed…

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Apr 19, 2019

What should (chief) economists do?

In a 1964 article Nobel Laureate James Buchanan famously asked, “what should economists do?” He was concerned by a trend for economic analysis to focus too much on attempting to solve technical problems, and losing sight of the methodological underpinnings of the discipline. He encouraged economists to… concentrate their attention…

Economics

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Jul 27, 2018

My Journey to Belarus

The Korean peninsula is the classic example of the importance of economic institutions. You can take an ethnically and culturally homogenous territory, mark out an arbitrary line, and thus create a natural experiment. Put a centrally planned economy in the North, and a (broadly) market economy in the South. Communism…

Russia

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My Journey to Belarus
My Journey to Belarus

Apr 27, 2018

Challenges of implementing more participant-centred learning

My mother spent her career in the Modern Languages department of a secondary school near Southampton, England. When people asked her what she did, she’d say, “I teach”. The typical follow up question is “what do you teach?” to which she’d reply “students”. At some fundamental level this captures the…

Education

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Challenges of implementing more participant-centred learning
Challenges of implementing more participant-centred learning

Mar 14, 2018

An Economics Mission Statement

The debate about the key drivers of economic growth, and how it can be generated in different countries at different times, is complex. However economists have a fairly good understanding of what needs to be in place for growth to occur. Certain moments in history have generated natural experiments that…

Economics

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An Economics Mission Statement
An Economics Mission Statement

Sep 14, 2017

The Faculty Roundtable

This article simulates a faculty lounge conversation, inspired by Kitch, Edmund W., ed. 1983 “The Fire of Truth: A Remembrance of Law and Economics at Chicago, 1932–1970.” Journal of Law and Economics 26(1):163–234 How should students view themselves? Students are not customers and we are not hotels, desperate to please…

Education

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The Faculty Roundtable
The Faculty Roundtable
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Anthony J. Evans

Professor of Economics at ESCP Business School

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