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Spring 2024

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 39, Number 1

An Educational Note Using Rules of the Game in the Built Environment: Teaching Institutions and Incentives with Economic Mysteries

M. Scott Niederjohn, Concordia University of Wisconsin

Kim Holder, University of West Georgia

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M.ScottNiederjohnandKimHolder.“AnEducationalNoteUsingRulesoftheGameintheBuiltEnvironment:TeachingInstitutionsandIncentiveswithEconomicMysteries”TheJournalofPrivateEnterprise39(1),2024,59-76.EDUCATIONALNOTEAnEducationalNoteUsingRulesoftheGameintheBuiltEnvironment:TeachingInstitutionsandIncentiveswithEconomicMysteriesM.ScottNiederjohnConcordiaUniversityWisconsinUnitedStatesofAmericaKimHolderUniversityofWestGeorgiaUnitedStatesofAmericaAbstractThiseducationalnoteexploreshoweconomicinstitutions,specificallychangesintherulesofthegamefortaxation,haveinfluencedincentivessurroundingthebuiltenvironment.Itprovidesintriguingexamplesfromaroundtheglobe,suchasmedievaljettying,Amsterdam’snarrowbuildings,unfinishedbuildingsinCairo,theFrenchmansardroof,andtheBritishwindowtax,whichwereallshapedbyeconomicincentives.Itusestheeconomic-mysteriespedagogicaltechnique.Additionally,itincludesabriefbackgroundforinstructorsonhowinstitutionsaffectaneconomy,referringtotheprominenteconomistsDouglassNorth,RonaldCoase,andElinorOstrom.Theseexamplesillustratetheprofoundeffectsofeconomicprinciplesonarchitectureandsociety,emphasizingtheimportanceofunderstandinghowinstitutionsandincentivesworkintherealworld.JELCodes:A21,A22,D01,andD02Keywords:economiceducation,teachingeconomics,economicwayofthinkingI.IntroductionEconomicsshapestheworldinwhichwelive,work,andplay.Economicprinciplesandtheoriesfunctionasaninvisibleyetpowerfularchitectthatcraftsandbuildstheenvironmentaroundus.Foreconomicsinstructors,therelevanceofourdisciplinetoeverydaylife

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Title	An Educational Note Using Rules of the Game in the Built Environment: Teaching Institutions and Incentives with Economic Mysteries
Authors/Creators:	M. Scott Niederjohn, Concordia University of Wisconsin Kim Holder, University of West Georgia
Year:	2024
Volume:	39
Number:	1
Pages:	59 - 76
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Educational Notes
Keywords:	economic education, teaching economics, economic way of thinking

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Niederjohn, M. Scott; Holder, Kim / 2024. "An Educational Note Using Rules of the Game in the Built Environment: Teaching Institutions and Incentives with Economic Mysteries." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 39(1): 59-76.