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Teaching private enterprise through tunes: an abecedarium of music for economists.(Report)
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Journal of Private Enterprise
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March 22, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Association of Private Enterprise Education. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Abstract
Over the past decade, a number of non-traditional approaches have emerged for teaching introductory economics beyond chalk and talk lectures. This note highlights two music-related websites for economic educators. The first uses animations to present music in class. The second takes song lyrics and formulates a series of economic questions that can serve as useful exercises. The resulting synergies create a new medium for communicating market processes.
Teaching economics through music is an extension of the work done by William Becker (2004) and Becker and Michael Watts (1998, 2001, 2003, 2006), who examined the way that economics was taught at the college ...
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