Publication: Journal of Economic Education
Volume: Volume 15, No. 3
Issue: Summer 1984
Pages: pp. 226-236
Author(s): Jonathan M. Karpoff
Title: Barter Trading as a Microeconomics Teaching Device
Abstract: Karpoff reports on a "barter trading game" in which students exchanged real goods over a period of seven weeks with different market constraints imposed each week. Student comments about the exercise were favorable.