I am getting increasingly interested in economic education, partly I suspect as a normal part of the maturation process.  At some point in every academic's career, preparing future generations becomes of increasing relative importance vis-a-vis other activities.  Part of this is just pursuing a changing comparative advantage--the longer we teach, the better we get at it, at least in principle.  In the process of teaching economics over the past decades, improved (or at least alternative!) ways of explaining things have occurred to me; some of those have gotten published.  I don't particularly recommend the textbooks below (the environmental text is ok, but a bit outdated; the micro book is not as good as several other texts currently available).  Some of the articles are interesting.  One, in particular, will be of interest to students in large classrooms taking computer graded multiple choice exams.  It shows that question order, where the correct answer occurs, and other seemingly "mechanical" variations in exams can really have a pronounced effect on relative  student performance.

TEXTBOOKS:

1. The Economics of Environmental Quality. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2nd Edition, 1986, 368 pp. (with E.S. Mills).

2. Intermediate Microeconomics. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, 1988, 519 pp. (with R. Clower and R.L. Sexton).

ARTICLES:

1. "International Student Demand for Higher Education in the U.S." Research in Higher Education, September 1989 (with R.L. Wobbekind).

2. "Multiple Choice Testing: Questions and Response Position." The Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer 1989) pp. 239-245 (with A. Bresnock and N. White).

3. "Monopoly Supply." Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 18, no. 4 (December 1990) pp. 32-37 (with G. Kripalani, R. Sexton, and G. Tolley).

4. "The Short and Long Run Marginal Cost Curves: A Pedagogical Note," Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 24, no. 1 (Winter 1993), pp. 34-37 (with D. Lee and R. Sexton).

5. "Incorporating Inventories into Supply and Demand Analysis," Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 20, no. 4 (December 1992), pp. 41-45 (with R. Sexton, R. Clower, D. Lee).

6. "Slope Versus Elasticity and the Burden of Taxation," Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 27, Summer 1996 (with R. Sexton, D. Lee)

7. "Mnemonics for Demand Determinants." 2nd ed., (reprinted from the first edition). In Great Ideas for Teaching Economics. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co. 1984, p. 22.

8. "W*R*I*P." In Great Ideas for Teaching Economics, 2nd ed., Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co. 1984, p. 177.

9. "A Mnemonic Device for the Determinants of Supply." In Great Ideas for Teaching Economics. 2nd ed., Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co. 1984, (with R.L. Sexton) p.28.

10. "Demand and Supply Curves: Rotations Versus Shifts" ERN Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching (electronic journal) This paper (with R. Sexton) was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list.

11. "The Production Possibilities Frontier: Issues of Theory and Pedagogy" (manuscript under review).