Classroom Games: Rent-Seeking and the Inefficiency of Non-Market Allocations
介绍了用于经济学课程的课堂游戏,旨在通过互动决策帮助学生理解寻租与非市场配置的低效率,减少对理论的怀疑。
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.