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Spring 2006

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 22, Number 2

Categories: Education | Spring 2006

Using Activities to Teach Economics: Lessons from the Experimentalists

John R. Brock, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Jane S. Lopus, California State University, Hayward

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JournalofPrivateEnterprise,VolumeXXI,Volume2,Spring2006UsingActivitiestoTeachEconomics:LessonsfromtheExperimentalistsJohnR.BrockUniversityofColorado,ColoradoSpringsJaneS.LopusCaliforniaStateUniversity,EastBayInhisHarvardUniversityclassroomoverahalf-centuryago,withVernonSmithagraduatestudentparticipant,EdwardChamberlin(1948)conductedwhatwereprobablythefirstdocumentedclassroomlaboratoryexperimentstoinvestigatetheefficiencyofmarkets.Sincethattime,theuseofexperimentaleconomicsforresearchpurposeshasexpandedgreatly:ElizabethHoffman's1991bibliographylistedover1,500articlesrelatedtothistopic(Smith,1994).Inthelate1980sandearly1990sthemovementofexperimentalpedagogyexpandedintothecollegeclassroom,perhapsduetoVernonSmithandtheEconomicScienceLaboratory(ESL)attheUniversityofArizona,directingtheirattentiontousingexperimentalmethodsforundergraduateinstruction.'Inparallelmanner,highschoolteachers(anduniversityprofessors')havebeenusingactivelearningmethodssuchassimulations,roleplays,andgroupproblemsolvingtoteacheconomicsfordecades.Theseactivities,promotedbytheNationalCouncilonEconomicEducation(NCEE)andothers,arewidelyusedby'Asanexampleofthestrengthofthismovement,theJournalofEconomicEducationdevotedtheentireFall1993issueto"ClassroomExperimentalEconomics."'Somerecentpublicationsdesignedforuniversitystudentsofferamixoflessonsbasedonboththeexperimentalliteratureandtheactivity-basedmatPrinls(seeforexample,BergstromandMiller[2000]andBrock[2000]).JohnR.BrockandJaneS.Lopus184

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Title	Using Activities to Teach Economics: Lessons from the Experimentalists
Authors/Creators:	John R. Brock, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Jane S. Lopus, California State University, Hayward
Year:	2006
Volume:	22
Number:	2
Pages:	184 - 195
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Educational Notes
Keywords:	Teaching, Economic education, Experimental economics, Vernon Smith

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Brock, John R.; Lopus, Jane S. / 2006. "Using Activities to Teach Economics: Lessons from the Experimentalists." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 22(2): 184-195.