pgs 382-383

Teaching Economics

In this section of the book the author again mentions the exhibits at the San Francisco Hilton on January 5^th, 1996. Many well known Economists were at this with the author focusing on that of John Taylor and his approach.

A portion of this section also goes into reasons why economists write texts including, “they want to make a lot of money, they love to teach, because they want to influence the way the subject matter of economics is generally understood, etc. According to the author at this time, namely the meetings in 1996, the hunt for a successor to Paul Sameulson’s text was “well under way.”