🚨 NEW ISSUE OUT NOW 🚨

The latest issue just dropped:
➡️ WWE meets marginal analysis
➡️ Taylor Swift teaches opp. cost
➡️ Scratch-and-sniff externalities
➡️ A calculus-free Malthusian model
➡️ …and more

We’ll highlight each paper this week in a thread 👇

The PPF is already in your textbook, but what if it could also teach inequality and economic history?

These authors show how “distribution boxes” turn the familiar model into a socioeconomic portrait of an entire economy.

Read it now: journalofeconomicsteaching.org/socioeconomic-…

How do you teach entrepreneurship in an economics course? Start with Cantillon and Adam Smith.

A new paper connects historical scholarship to modern theory by giving students a vivid picture of how entrepreneurs build markets.

Read it now: journalofeconomicsteaching.org/how-economics-…

Taylor Swift has been teaching economics this whole time, and your students just didn’t know it yet!

This paper has ten songs covering five core topics and includes ready-made lesson plans from opportunity cost to behavioral economics.

Read it now: journalofeconomicsteaching.org/economic-lesso…

What if your students learned marginal analysis by booking a pro wrestling show?

@WWE 2K23’s General Manager Mode turns budgeting, scarcity, and sunk costs into a competition your students will actually want to play.

New in JET: journalofeconomicsteaching.org/wrasslin-with-…

📣 SAVE THE DATE! #JETSET27 is heading to Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington 🏔️

📅 August 6–8, 2027

Registration and submission info is live now on our website. Hotel details coming soon!

Learn more on our JET SET page: journalofeconomicsteaching.org/symposium/

After years of dedicated service, Mary Clare Peate is stepping down as one of the directors at JET. Her contributions have helped shape both the journal and the community around it, and her impact will be felt for a long time.

Thank you for everything, Mary Clare! 💚

We invite a lot of high school teachers out to @EconTeaching conferences. Many of them are doing amazing work.

🚨 NEW ISSUE OUT NOW 🚨

We have fresh classroom ideas featuring:
💥 Comics
🗿 Neanderthals
🎤 Interviews
👨‍💻 Excel
📊 Policy posters
📺 The Amazing Race
👨‍🍼 Caregivers
🌏 Tradle

We'll share each paper throughout the week in the thread below 👇

Comics + economics = a surprisingly effective way to teach the tragedy of the commons!

This approach uses visual storytelling and digital presentations to reach today's students where they are.

Read it now: doi.org/10.58311/jecon…

Did trade help humans outlast the Neanderthals? 🦴

A new 50-minute classroom game lets your intro students find out for themselves and walk away understanding why specialization matters.

Read it now: doi.org/10.58311/jecon…

We're still buzzing from #JETSET26 at Purdue 🎉

Thank you to everyone who attended, presented, and made this community what it is. There's nothing like the ideas, the energy, and the people.

See you in Spokane for #JETSET27!

Really another great JETSET (@EconTeaching) in the books. If anyone wants to check out the test version of Little Economy, an econ board game/class game. You can find it on my website with my other teaching resources.

noahtrudeau.com/teaching-resou…

Day 2 starts with a keynote from Doug McKee (@TeachBetterCo) #JETSET26

We're so excited to hear from @planetmoney's Wailin Wong as our first keynote of #JETSET26

I am at a work conference in my hometown! The Day family + @EconTeaching symposium at @PurdueEconEd. Now I can show all my work colleagues my secret skate spots, which are directly underneath our conference building. And my brothers Tim and @bubbaALLday are both in town!