Overview
An innovative introduction to economic behavior that uses interactive experiments to promote experience-based discovery This book presents a unique active-learning approach to economic thinking, providing a behavioral perspective on basic economic concepts ranging from trust to trade. Each chapter features a classroom experiment where students engage directly with the material as market participants, and chapters come with warm-up exercises, quizzes, and incisive summaries. The Economic Experience empowers students to develop insights into essential economic principles and goes beyond merely documenting behavioral anomalies by showing students how to navigate and anticipate them through hands-on learning and team building. Encourages discovery of key behavioral insights with interactive class simulations Provides a Socratic structure through lab reports for interpreting and applying lessons from experiment results while interacting with fellow students Includes ""What Economists Do"" sections that highlight key applications and policy issues Covers standard topics such as gains from trade, marginal analysis, and the resilience of competitive markets Enables students to experience the negative effects of market imperfections related to monopoly power, non-price rent seeking, corruption, congestion, and inadequate incentives for the provision of public goods Introduces notions of risk and strategic behavior in games and auctions Explains foundational macroeconomic concepts such as financial markets and the role of money while addressing behavioral issues like bank runs and asset market price bubbles that may arise in a macroeconomic setting Is supported by a free website that instructors can use to set up classroom experiments online
Full Product Details
Author: Charles A. Holt ,
Erica Sprott
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691264097
ISBN 10: 0691264090
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Charles A. Holt is the A. Willis Robertson Professor of Political Economy at the University of Virginia. His books include Experimental Economics (with Douglas D. Davis), Markets, Games, and Strategic Behavior, and Quantal Response Equilibrium (with Jacob K. Goeree and Thomas R. Palfrey) (all Princeton). Erica R. Sprott is a doctoral student at the Harvard Kennedy School and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.
