Haiku, art and economics: a pedagogical exercise

McCloskey (1998) and Ziliak (2009) have argued for bridging the intellectual and pedagogical divide between ‘poets and positivists’. And Ziliak (2002, 2009, 2011) introduced a new bridge, ‘haiku economics’. An introductory economics class at a large US university required students to use a work of visual art from the university’s art museum and write a haiku poem that illustrated the artwork and an economic concept. The format of the assignment,...