TEACHING ECONOMICS:
INSTRUCTION AND CLASSROOM BASED RESEARCH

Friday, February 21, 2025

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• 8:45am – 9:00am EST Welcome
• 9:00am – 10:00am EST Plenary Speakers
• 10:15am – 11:00am EST Concurrent Sessions
• 11:15am – 12:00pm EST Concurrent Sessions
• 12:30pm – 1:15pm EST Concurrent Sessions
• 1:30pm – 2:15pm EST Concurrent Sessions
• 2:15pm Closing Comments

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8:45am – 9:00am (Eastern Time) Welcome

9:00am – 10:00am Plenary Speaker

Plenary Speaker - Dirk Mateer, University of Texas at Austin - Economic Dynamism: Teaching Economic Growth with Photographs

10:00am – 10:15am Break

10:15am – 11:00am Concurrent Sessions

Integrating Economics and Marketing Concepts
Barbara Zuck, Montana State University – Northern

Changing Student Perception Regarding AI Application in Economic Forecasting
Subhadra Ganguli, Pennsylvania State University

11:00am – 11:15am Break

11:15am – 12:00pm Concurrent Sessions

A Unified yet Intuitive Strategy to Teach Marginal Analysis in Economics
Qingbin Wang, Johnson & Wales University

Service Is Not Always Satisfaction
Denis Rudd, Robert Morris University

12:00pm – 12:30pm Lunch Break

12:30pm – 1:15pm Concurrent Sessions

Crusoe Economics: A Retrospective on its History, Legacy, and Application
Joseph Weglarz, University of Detroit Mercy

Novel Representations of Consumer, Producer, and Total Surpluses
Jesse Zinn, Clayton State University

Oligopoly: the Board Game
Ben Osenbach, SUNY Polytechnic Institute

1:15pm – 1:30pm Break

1:30pm – 2:15pm Concurrent Sessions

Active Learning in the LT Economics Classroom
Megan Kirts, Econiful
Kathleen Cusack, Econiful

Teaching Economics through Contextual Learning
Kentaro Murayama, Pennsylvania Western University

Using FRED Data in the Economics Classroom
Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

2:15pm

Closing Comments