The teaching of economics The final comparison I offer is in the teaching of economics. Of course I do not sit in lectures or tutorials, so I am unable to judge whether or not the face-to-face teaching has changed since the late 1970s. But one interesting exercise is to compare the text books used today with those in the past.
2 I understand that at the University of Sydney a popular text is the  2  I am indebted to Clare Noone for the suggestion of conducting this comparison. BIS Review 60/2008  9  Australian Edition of Ben Bernanke’s Principles of Macroeconomics (co-authored with Robert Frank, with the Australian edition adapted by Nilss Olekans).