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Classroom Games: Making Money

Author(s) -

Susan K. Laury,

Charles A. Holt

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

the journal of economic perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614

H-Index - 196

eISSN - 1944-7965

pISSN - 0895-3309

DOI - 10.1257/jep.14.2.205

Subject(s) - intuition , skepticism , variety (cybernetics) , abstraction , mathematics education , economics education , computer science , psychology , epistemology , cognitive science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , primary education

Economics is often taught at a level of abstraction that can hinder some students from gaining basic intuition. However, lecture and textbook presentations can be complemented with classroom exercises in which students make decisions and interact. The approach can increase interest in and decrease skepticism about economic theory. This feature offers short descriptions of classroom exercises for a variety of economics courses, with something of an emphasis on the more popular undergraduate courses.

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