PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - George M. Frankfurter TI - On the Teaching of Financial Economics AID - 10.3905/joi.2008.710925 DP - 2008 Aug 31 TA - The Journal of Investing PG - 105--110 VI - 17 IP - 3 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/17/3/105.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/17/3/105.full AB - Samuelson's Economics textbook ruled economics teaching for the last 60 years. Economics has been a text that now three economists–Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, and Stephan Ziliak–argue is “dogmatic, one-voiced, unethical.” Instead, Klamer et al. suggest that economics should be taught as conversation in which several aspects of the issues are presented. This article explores the premise of teaching finance as conversation between a professor and a class of four students.TOPICS: Factors, risk premia, exchanges/markets/clearinghouses