This chapter provides an introduction to the work on threshold concepts in economics and the teaching and learning materials developed within the Embedding Threshold Concepts project.

Thresholds: Two Interpretations, but two sides of the same coin – "We live in a society governed by a state."

For their part, Reinhart and Rogoff (2010) evidenced threshold effects for both emerging and advanced countries: above such threshold, debt reduces economic growth, in particular during prolonged …

Economic threshold was defined by Stem et al. (1959) as the "density at which control measures should be determined to prevent an increasing pest population from reaching the economic injury...

Therefore, this chapter will review some of the basic elements of EIL theory, consider the current status of bioeconomics research, and explore some of the traditional, as well as advanced, modes of …

Although the economic injury level (EIL) and the economic threshold (ET) are fundamental integrated pest management (IPM) concepts, they are often confused. This is understandable, as the concepts …

This paper subjects the threshold concept hypothesis to critical scrutiny on logical and methodological grounds, and then investigates its applicability to the economic concept of opportunity cost.