Comments on: In Antitrust We (Do Not) Trust http://nephist.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/in-antitrust-we-do-not-trust/ Discussion and comment on the latest research in business, economic and financial history Thu, 16 May 2013 11:15:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike Smitka http://nephist.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/in-antitrust-we-do-not-trust/#comment-1035 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 03:44:29 +0000 http://nephist.wordpress.com/?p=973#comment-1035 Preparing an IO courrse myself, thanks! — reading one of those math-heavy texts now, which even our econ-PhD-bound students would find daunting, though useful for me to brush up as I went through grad school at the tail end of the SCP era have seldom been allowed to teach it (or been too busy with other courses).

I may have mainly non-econ majors, too. Even the math of linear equations will be a challenge for some (despite 700+ SAT scores, many tested out of calculus and as juniors won’t have used math for 3 years). We don’t sequence our courses much, so I can’t count on anyone having had intermediate micro…

Rather than business history and history of thought, I’m planning to use the Twombleys’ beer book — a commercial microbrewery just opened where I live (Rockbridge County, VA) while a bio prof runs an even smaller-scale one and there’s a Coors brewery up the Valley. I’ll also have plenty of auto examples…one of my things, alongside “Japan”. As much as possible I want to avoid standing at the blackboard, though my own formal education had only that.

]]> By: sara, Florence (I) http://nephist.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/in-antitrust-we-do-not-trust/#comment-915 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:58:39 +0000 http://nephist.wordpress.com/?p=973#comment-915 I’m teaching completely different things, but I like this approach on teaching. More and more we should try to e-ducate the mind of our students in order to allow them to face this challenging world… which is something teacher always wanted to do, but every era has it’s own different approach on teaching, and before our own approach start to be obsolete or too academic we should think how to 1) attract the students on subjects that sometimes seems too distant from real life and 2) allow them to think which contribute they themselves can give to the world that thay are living in… and they will be able to do that only if we teach them how to think critically.

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