- Principles of Economics
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Dirk Mateer (University of Arizona) and Lee Coppock (University of Virginia) bring their teaching insights and best practices—honed over a combined 40 years in the classroom—to every instructor in the country through a new truly student-centered text, instructor-centered ancillary package, and pedagogically thoughtful homework solution.
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Book Chapter Contributions
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- International Handbook of Economic Education
- "Incorporating Media and Classroom Response Systems in the Economics Classroom" (With Joe Calhoun)
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- Doing More With Less: Making Colleges Work Better
- “A Tale of Two Partners - How Specialization and Division of Labor are Reshaping the Academy,” edited by Josh Hall, Springer Publishing, 2010. Buy now!
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- Expanding Teaching and Learning Horizons in Economic Education
- “Recent Film Scenes for Teaching Introductory Economics,” edited by F.G. Mixon, Jr. and R.J. Cebula, New York, Nova Science Publishers, 2009. Buy now!
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- Economics in the Movies
- South-Western Publishing, Mason OH 2005 Buy now!
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- The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 2002
- “Letting the Gini Out of the Bottle: A Look at Inequality in Major League Baseball Since 1985” (with Brian O’Roark) edited by William Simons, MacFarland & Company, Inc. 2003. Buy now!
- Journal Articles
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- "Music Then and Now: Using Technology to Build a Lyric Animation Module"
- (with Wayne Geerling and Brian O’Roark) The American Economist. 64 (1): 1-13, 2019.
- "Pokémon GO: Applications for the Economics Classroom"
- (with Abdullah Al-Bahrani, David Mahon and Ryan Murphy) Journal of Economics Teaching. 3 (2): 218-231, 2018.
- "From The Beatles to Twenty One Pilots: Economics in Music in the Pop Culture Era"
- (with Kim Holder and Brian O’Roark) Perspectives on Economic Education Research. 11(1): 42-57, 2018.
- "Teaching How Markets Work Using the Economics of The Office Website"
- (with Dan Kuester) Journal of Private Enterprise. 33 (3): 75-91, 2018. (This paper was the recipient of the Best Educational Note Award for 2018.)
- "Lesson Plans for Teaching Economics with The Big Bang Theory"
- (with Wayne Geerling, Ben Smith, James Tierney, and Jadrian Wooten) Journal of Economics Teaching. 3 (1): 162-184, 2018.
- "The Economics in Humans of New York
- (Abdullah Al-Bahrani, Kim Holder, and Charity-Joy Acchiardo). Journal of Economics and Finance Education. 16 (2): 19-30, 2017.
- "Beyond Grades"
- (with Matt Rousu, James Tierney, Kim Holder) Journal of Economics and Finance Education. 16 (2): 1-10, 2017.
- "Mad Max: Traveling the Fury Road to Learn Economics"
- (with Michelle Vachris) nternational Journal of Pluralism in Economic Education. 8 (1): 68-79, 2017.
- "The Top Ten Films for Economic Educators"
- (with Kim Holder and Brian O’Roark) The American Economist 61 (2): 1-13, 2016.
- "JET: A New Journal Takes Off!"
- (with Linda Ghent) Journal of Economics Teaching 1 (1): 1-7, 2016.
- "Bazinganomics: Economics of The Big Bang Theory"
- (with Wayne Geerling, Ben Smith, James Tierney and Jadrian Wooten) Journal of Economic Education, 47 (2), 192, 2016.
- "Using Film Clips to Teach Public Choice Economics: Take Two"
- (with Frank Stephenson) Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 14 (2), 76-85, 2015.
- "First Impressions: Why the First Day Matters"
- (with Charity-Joy Acchiardo) Perspectives on Economic Education Research, 9 (2), 1-9, 2015.
- "Using Karaoke to Teach the Law of Supply"
- (with Wayne Geerling) Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 14 (1), 69-78, 2015.
- Who's Dirk?
- More on the man, himself. Meet Dirk
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