Off-Campus Study, Study Abroad, and Study Away in Economics

Chapter 1. Exploring Your Own Local Economy Using Adam Smith.- Chapter 2. Extra-Curricular Undergraduate Student Field Trips.- Chapter 3. Economic Journeys in Alaska.- Chapter 4. Off-Campus Colloquia as Immersive Study and Active Learning: Capitaf, Milton and Rose Friedman's Home.- Chapter 5. Faculty professional development through international experiences..- Chapter 6. Educating in Theory and in Practice: The Fund for American Studies.- Chapter 7. International internships: Their value and a guide to setting them up.- Chapter 8. Teaching the Economics of Poverty and Discrimination as a Study Abroad in South Africa.- Chapter 9. Teaching Economics of Poverty as a Global Classroom Course in Ghana.- Chapter 10. Business in Emerging Markets: The Case of Morocco.- Chapter 11. The Chinese menu: How to discover the key ingredients of market systems through a study abroad program.- Chapter 12. Sports, Culture, and the Economy: Baseball in the Dominican Republic.- Chapter 13. Short Term StudyAbroad - Renewable Energy in Germany and Switzerland.- Chapter 14. Study Abroad in Germany: Sie Mussen Arbeiten ¨ , but It Is Not that Hard.- Chapter 15. Schumpeter in Vienna: A Study Abroad Course.- Chapter 16. Engaging Economics: 'The Innocents Abroad' in Rome and Italy.- Chapter 17. Developing Study Abroad Opportunities in Economics and Finance: Guidance from a Faculty-Led Program in Madrid, Spain.- Chapter 18. Exploring how place can enhance learning in short course study abroads.- Chapter 19. A Study Abroad Experience in Ireland: The Celtic Tiger Before and After the Global Financial Crisis.- Chapter 20. Multidisciplinary Agricultural Study Abroad in Uruguay.- Chapter 21. The World as a Living Economics Classroom: Lessons from 'Economies in Transition', a Faculty-Led Study Abroad Course in Central and Eastern Europe.- Chapter 22. Using Study Abroad to Teach the Fundamentals of a Market Economy in Comparative Settings.- Chapter 23. Study Abroad in the Transitional Economies.

Joshua Hall is Chair and Professor at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University (US). Dr. Hall's areas of interest include applied microeconomics, with an emphasis on economic freedom, state and local public finance and entrepreneurship. In addition to being the author of more than 50 articles in journals such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Administration, Research, and Theory, Contemporary Economic Policy, and Southern Economic Journal, he is co-author of the widely-cited Economic Freedom of the World annual report. 

Kim Holder is the Director of the University of West Georgia's (UWG) Center for Economic Education and Financial Literacy and Senior Lecturer of Economics in the Richards College of Business. She's an alumna of UWG and Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Holder's academic research focuses on creatively teaching with media and social media tobreak down barriers to economics education. Kim served as a founding advisory board member of the Journal of Economics Teaching and is a board member focused on economic education for the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Journal of Private Enterprise.