Classroom games: Making money

Abstract

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. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to Charles Holt, c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-3288.