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Changing the Nature of the Intermediate Microeconomics Course

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The AEA/ASSA 2025 Annual Meetings hosted a session “A Fresh Look at the Future of the Intermediate Microeconomics Course,†extended in this issue as a symposium, offering papers covering the state of intermediate microeconomics courses (Hoyt, Marshall, O’Sullivan, Patel, & Underwood, 2025) and crossing from the discussion of modernizing what we teach (Halliday & Mamunuru, 2025) to how we teach it (Jacobson & Viceisza, 2025). In this paper, I offer some thoughts on how these projects viewed together may offer a starting point for the discussion of how intermediate microeconomics courses might need to evolve and where there is a need for more educational research to light the path ahead.

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  • George Orlov, 2025. "Changing the Nature of the Intermediate Microeconomics Course," The American Economist, Sage Publications, vol. 70(2), pages 334-339, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:amerec:v:70:y:2025:i:2:p:334-339
    DOI: 10.1177/05694345251353758
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    1. Diego Mendez-Carbajo, 2025. "Editorial Updates, Issue Review, and Teaching Intermediate Microeconomics Symposium," The American Economist, Sage Publications, vol. 70(2), pages 191-192, October.

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