Presentamos un enlace al blog de NEP-HIS con comentarios de Chris Colvin sobre el artículo In Antitrust We (Do Not) Trust. British economists on competition policy (1890-1920), de Nicola Giocoli (giocoli@mail.jus.unipi.it), Universidad de Pisa. En especial resulta de gran interés la reseña sobre la enseñanza de ciertos tópicos, no sólo para los entusiastas de la historia económica, sino para docentes de microeconomía y otras disciplinas. Allí leemos: "I will be teaching industrial organisation (IO) to undergraduates next year. It is a brand new course, and so I have been trawling though the websites of IO teachers around the world for inspiration. Overall, I have been quite perplexed with what I have found: undergraduates seem to be fed material that is very theoretical and computational, with little or no context or application. Perhaps this prepares students well for graduate programmes in economics, but the vast majority of economics undergraduates aren’t going to be doing a PhD. And even those that do will require exposure to some empirical research. I want my students to use their microeconomics, to get them to appreciate that real life is dirtier than in the models. And I want them to understand that economic ideas aren’t fixed in time and space, that a log-run perspective can yield interesting insights about human behaviour. I plan to do so by limiting the use of textbooks and instead delving into academic papers and antitrust cases. I feel economic history should play centre stage in an economics degree, not relegated to an obscure field study. So, when teaching sunk costs and market structure, I will look at the decline of Europe’s film industry in the early twentieth century; when covering collusion, I will set them the US sugar cartel of the 1930s; when teaching natural monopolies, I will examine Victorian railways; and when looking at the efficacy of patents, I will do nineteenth century alternatives."
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