Wellyopolis

December 15, 2004

Markets in classes

When I took Economics 101 with Jerry Mushin in 1993 there were 900 students distributed over 3 lectures. To get into your assigned lecture you had to have a colour-coded sticker.

Rather than bother with swapping stickers between students Jerry encouraged students unhappy with their lecture time to trade stickers, and reminded us that if you had to pay for the colour you wanted that was just economics in action.

That, I suppose, is the difference between law school and the economics department.

Posted by robe0419 at December 15, 2004 8:57 AM