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Agricultural Economists' Use of Classroom Economic Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Barry J. Barnett  and
Warren Kriesel
Barry J. Barnett
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Warren Kriesel
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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Abstract

Economics belongs in everyone's education once we have learned how to teach it.

—George J. Stigler

Results are presented from a Web-based survey of instructors in agricultural economics and related departments about their use of, and attitudes about, classroom economic experiments.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , August 2003 , pp. 321 - 335
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2003

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