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City-as-Prices: An exploration of place through economics

Saturday, November 9, 2013: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Napoleon B3-C3 (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
D. Chris Ferguson , University of Wisconsin-Stout
This paper shares pedagogical approaches developed to apply the Place-as-Text approach to the study of economics. By exploring a community to examine prices of goods, services, and resources, students move beyond basic supply and demand graphs to make real world connections to economic theories of value, markets, and market failure.