Teaching Keynes in the 21st Century

Publication: Journal of Economic Education

Volume: Volume 30, No. 4

Issue: Fall 1999

Pages: 364-372

Author(s): David Colander (Middlebury College)

Address (Principal Author):David Colander, CAJ Distinguished Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, 802-443-5302, fax: 802-443-2084

Internet Address (Principal Author):colander@middlebury.edu

Title: Teaching Keynes in the 21st Century

Abstract: Introductory textbooks are downplaying and treating Keynesian economics as an historic artifact, which is a mistake. Students should be taught that the Keynesian approach sees economics as a method rather than a doctrine.