Word: gill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gill made three big changes in Ec 1's content. He added the section on British industrialism and the classical economists that now fills the first month of the course, as well as the chunk on the Soviet economy (being taught this week and next) and the exhaustive treatment of underdeveloped countries that occupies the rest of the spring...
...history of economic theory is Gill's special interest, but he says that "personal predilections" only partly explain how Ricardo and Arkwright found their way into an introductory economics course. The first month of Ec 1 is designed, says Gill, "to convey the relativity of present economic conditions to institutions and ideas of the past, to relate economics to the rest of the social sciences...
...value may be here, but it escapes many students. A survey the Economics Department took in 1962 asked those who took the course whether there should be more or less on each of the 14 topics covered. The pollees voted for more of everything but economic history and Gill accordingly chopped out a third of the material. Some feel he should have gone farther...
...kind of economy it is, is not as germaine as it might be for the majority of students." Another, who is in his third year teaching the course, says, "At first I couldn't see any point to it, but now I'm starting to agree with Gill that it's a good way to get people started...
...early '60's Harvard had a Gen Ed course called "Economics of the Citizen" which tried this approach. It never became as popular as the more rigorous Ec 1. Eventually it gained the reputation of being a gut of little substance that the self-respecting avoided. Gill argues that talking explicitly about controversy isn't always the best way to equip students to talk about political problems--"you can't just describe economics--you've got to get down to working those damn curves to understand the problems...