Sam Bowles: What problems do economics students have difficulty solving?

Allocation, Distribution, and Policy Samuel Bowles & Weikai Chen https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0466 This beautiful book will serve as an inspiration for microeconomics educators who are open to new and more effective teaching methods. Sam Bowles stands out as an exception in the microeconomics community. For decades he has acknowledged our shortcomings in teaching and proposes new approaches that encourage students to engage with real-life economic issues rather than merely solving technical exercises. In this book Bowles and Weikai Chen propose a well-thought-out method of teaching “post-Walrasian” microeconomics, in which students grapple with real economic challenges based on problem-based learning activities. Ariel Rubinstein New York University, University of Tel Aviv and 2024 President of the Econometric Society