Where should Economics be taught?

[Syrinx]

Poll question: Where should Economics be taught?

When I went to college I took an economics course in my first semester, and I failed miserably. The professor was a funny, long-haired guy that could easily be confused for a liberal on the surface. But he turned out to be a total supply-sider, that talked really fast. I couldn't tell if he was trying to educate, indoctrinate, or just befuddle. He was a horrible teacher. On one exam we had, only three people passed. And this was in an auditorium-sized classroom. I got an eight. Out of a hundred... and my grade wasn't the worst in the class. (And I got almost all A's in college.)

I later re-took the class, taught by a different professor. Though my knowledge of the subject matter was limited at best, he seemed to me to be a classic Keynesian. He was calm and matter-of-fact. He taught the subject well, and I got an 'A.'

This was all at the University of Alabama business college, which I think is fairly well-regarded as a public business school. What these two professors were teaching was so diametrically opposed, they may as well have been speaking different languages.

It got me to thinking, back then, that the business college isn't really the right place to teach economics. I got to thinking that maybe economics should be taught in the philosophy department instead.

What do you think? Should economics be taught in the business school, or in the philosophy department?

[Fovea]

1. Poli Sci

Or divinity school.

[bird gerhl]

2. ECONOMICS SHOULD BE TAUGHT ON THE SHOP FLOOR

just kidding, I dont know

[Heidi]

3. My first economics class was in high school,

but at college/university level, I don't believe it should be confined only to the business school.

[elleng]

4. At home,

in the kitchen.

[readmoreoften]

5. It's often taught in social science as a theory.

[LSdemocrat]

6. Other: Ideally there should be an independent economics department

[old mark]

7. High school or even earlier.

I have attended several colleges from California to Pennsylvania and heve never had a course in economics.

mark

[MrSlayer]

8. They should do it in a boat, they should do it in a moat.

they should do it in the trees and in the hives of giant bees.
they should do it near and far and in the backseat of your car.
In the halls and in the shacks and on the ancient tortoise backs.

Where the tortured scream and the privileged dream.

Economics should dominate the conversation in any situation.