Classroom experiments

International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 90-98

  Emerson, Tisha ^a   Hazlett, Denise ^b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

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