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Class Detail:

FA 2010
Economics
ECON 309 - Experimental Economics
Section 001

Credits: 3
Requirements & Distribution: SS, QR/1
Credit Exclusions: No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in ECON 109.
Lab Fee: 30.00
Enforced Prerequisites: ECON 101 with a C or better.
Advisory Prerequisites: ECON 102 (unless ECON 101 completed with B or higher).
Repeatability: May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor: Joyce,B Patrick

 

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This course introduces the student to testing economics arguments in experimental classroom markets. The student is both the subject and the analytical observer. Topics include both classical rational and behavioral arguments.


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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
Note: Supplemental: Introduction to Economic Analysis by R. Preston McAfee: free, available at www.introecon.com

ISBN: 007229518X Experiments with economic principles : microeconomics, Author: Theodore C. Bergstrom, John H. Miller., Publisher: McGraw-Hill 2nd ed. 2000
Required

ISBN: 0393324869 Naked economics : undressing the dismal science, Author: Charles Wheelan ; foreword by Burton G. Malkiel., Publisher: Norton [1. Norton 2002
Required

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