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标题：Teaching Quantitative Methods in Economics: Alternatives to Theorem and Proof and Chalk and Talk
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作者：William E. Becker
期刊名称：Economic Analysis and Policy
印刷版ISSN：0313-5926
出版年度：2002
卷号：32
期号：2
页码：159-180
DOI：10.1016/S0313-5926(02)50027-8
出版社：Elsevier B.V.
摘要：Applications of quantitative methods in economics are not universally viewed as unique to the discipline, with the claim that optimization techniques, game theory, and statistical methods are better taught in a mathematics department. In addition to questions regarding the efficacy of quantitative methods being taught as part of economics, academic economists are easy targets for ridicule when it comes to the ways in which they teach and their attitudes towards teaching. In this presentation, I address these two criticisms. I argue that just as there are special data characteristics in issues confronted by researchers in the natural sciences that require insights gleaned from the discipline, this is also true for economics and the other social sciences. I provide examples to support this argument and illustrate how quantitative methods can be taught in an economics department to make it clear to students that economists want them engaged in the learning of their discipline.