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Critics of status quo identify range of options to transform intro and intermediate curriculum away from current narrow focus.

Economics education in profound conflict with the philosophy of a liberal education. Part 3 of our series.

An important benefit to one class of litigants is deeply baked into the current system. The tax code provides that businesses may deduct all of their legal expenses (lawyer and expert fees, and discovery costs) in all cases — win or lose, meritorious or non-meritorious, plaintiff or defendant.

Though presented to students as "value-free," neoclassical economics is a cheerleader for free markets.

Exposure to only a narrow subset of perspectives undermines students' ability to think critically about the economy.

Reconstruction program done right would require policy makers to put aside one-dimensional narratives.

In attempting to promote “insourcing” by American companies, the Obama Administration has embraced the report of a private consulting firm that asserts that gains in “competitiveness” can only be maintained with policies that have yielded lower wages and weak unions. The President praised business leaders who have brought jobs home for their patriotism, but experts suggested that businesses were simply looking at their bottom line.

Neither city nor suburban officials would look past selfish concerns.

Historical failure to achieve regional cooperation hastened, intensified city's decline. Experts suggest that city and entire region could have prospered through partnership.

Proposed short-term solutions for Detroit's immediate financial crisis likely to exacerbate long-term problems.

The big three German automakers pay high wages and have high union membership at home, the opposite of the conditions in their U.S. factories. The difference is that, here, a race to the bottom is encouraged.