Securing participation: Experiments in a one-day introduction to economics

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dc.contributor.author	Geller, Chris
dc.date.accessioned	2005-12-09
dc.date.available	2005-12-09
dc.date.issued	2005-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Innovation for Student Engagement in Economics: Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Teaching Economics Conference, Ed. Stephen L. Cheung, pp. 35-51	en
dc.identifier.isbn	1864877278
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2123/200
dc.description.abstract	Classroom experiments and exercises served as a one-day introduction to economics for students who felt insecure about taking first-year business classes. The first experiment addresses demand in isolation, while the second addresses supply. Supply, demand and equilibrium are integrated in a pit market in which all students have equal expected profits. A monopoly pricing exercise addresses market failure. Exercises use many incremental questions to reveal principles of microeconomics. Evaluations show that at the end of the program, students were familiar with economic results and concepts, and were more comfortable with taking economics.	en
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	School of Economics and Political Science, The University of Sydney	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Economics - Study and teaching.
dc.subject.lcsh	Economics - Exercises, practice, etc.
dc.subject.lcsh	Motivation in education.
dc.title	Securing participation: Experiments in a one-day introduction to economics	en
dc.type	Conference paper	en