The focus of this paper is an interdisciplinary course team-taught by an economist and a sociologist. Mindful of the less than amicable relationship that has traditionally existed between the two disciplines, these colleagues developed a course which attempted to illuminate the different...

This paper develops a real-exchange production-coordination model in which price-setting firms produce complementary inputs that are converted into and traded for a final good produced by a competitive sector. A rigid real-price regime is shown to be consistent with both rational firm behavior...