Economics Education, with Mr. Barr
Description
On today's episode, Sean Lyons interview Mr. Davidson Barr, an Economics and Math teacher at the Pingry School. They talk about how to popularize economics across disciplines in high school, the changing definition of the middle class, and how politicians interact with the study of economics more broadly. In this episode, Mr. Barr detailed the winding road which lead him to the Pingry math department. He began with aspirations in the banking world, but graduated in 2009, during the Great Recession. He soon found himself teaching economics, then joining Pingry. Currently, Mr. Barr is getting his doctorate in math education from Columbia.
Funnily enough, this episode was recorded two days before the Gamestop short squeeze, which has rallied much contention around the stock market and Hedge Fund influence on the American economy.







